Facilities
The Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology hosts a number of state-of-the-art laboratory facilities to analyse rocks samples, and reproduce the high P-T conditions typical of the internal parts of our planet.
Our laboratories are available to all researchers at ETH Zurich, as well as to scientists from other institutions (through collaborative work).
The mass spectrometry laboratories at the Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology house an extensive array of analytical equipment.
4 MC-ICP-MS instruments
- 2 Thermo Scientific Neptune Plus
- Nu instruments Nu Plasma II
- Nu instruments Nu Plasma 1700
2 TIMS instruments
- Thermo Scientific Triton
- MatFinnigan MAT262
2 ICPMS instruments
- Thermo Scientific Element XR
- Perkin Elmer Elan DRC-e ICP quadrupole mass spectrometer
The noble gas laboratory houses a wealth of equipment for high precision isotopic and elemental abundance measurements of all noble gases.
- the “TOM Dooley” high-sensitivity mass spectrometer with compressor source (to measure small amounts of He and Ne in terrestrial and extraterrestrial samples)
- the “ALBATROS” mass spectrometer equipped with a Au-Etch device and an IR-laser extraction line (to measure all noble gases)
- two further MS attached to a fluid extraction line for noble gases in water samples and natural gases
- a MC-MS for Kr and mainly Xe
- a UV laser ablation system