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EPMA
 Microbeam Analysis Society. Formed in 1968, the MAS is an organization of professionals who work with or have an active interest in microbeam instrumentation. The Society provides a forum for members from industrial and academic settings, engaged in research, development, analysis and instrument manufacturing, to exchange ideas and practical experience. The MAS is a sponsor of the annual Microscopy and Microanalysis Conference, and holds workshops with a focus on microanalytical topics.
European Microbeam Analysis
Society. EMAS was founded in 1987 as
a scientific society focusing on microbeam analysis methodology. Its primary
purposes are education, communication and innovation...
University of Massachusetts,
Department of Geosciences. Our CAMECA SX50 Electron
Microprobe allows researchers to perform high quality, quantitative
chemical microanalysis and obtain compositional maps of a wide variety
of materials...Cameca and the University of Massachusetts
are developing a new electron microprobe to be optimized for geochronologic
and trace element applications...
The Université
Laval Microanalysis Laboratory maintains a CAMECA SX-100 electron
for microanalysis of geological and inorganic materials. The laboratory
is available to researchers from Laval and other universities and also,
as a regional facility for industrial research...
The Technical
University of Clausthal, Germany. As of 20-march-96, a digital CAMECA
SX100 Electron Microprobe was being installed in Clausthal. The
SX100 replaces an aging JEOL JXA-3 installed and operational since 1967,
which was retired in May 1995 after 27 years of service. It is now on
public view in the department as a museum piece...
The American
Museum of Natural History, New-York. The laboratory is a
joint facility shared between the museum and Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty
Earth Observatory. Earth scientists at Columbia University can operate
the SX100 probe from their remote location 18 miles north of New York
City by means of a dedicated internet service...
Shool of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, UK. The remit
in this Regional Centre is to offer rapid access to microprobe facilities
for NERC funded and other United Kingdom workers, conducting research in
the NERC science area. As the unit is supported by direct funding grants
from the research council, access is provided at no charge to the user. Those
currently making use of our service include: Igneous and metamorphic petrologists,
Sedimentologists, Cosmochemists, Environmental geoscientists, Soil scientists
and Science based archaeologists...
Rice University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Houston,
USA. This laboratory works with a SX50 microprobe, recently equipped
with the last Software upgrade SXRayN50 from Cameca. A wide and varied
range of applications are presented on this web site: Spinel-Melt Reaction
in a Mantle Xenolith, Cathodoluminescence of Diamond, Cutting Tools,
Zircon Zoning, Levitation Melting of Alloys, Lithium Niobate (LiNbO3)
Thin Films, Carbon Fibers in Composites...
Groupement National
de Microscopie Electronique à Balayage et de microAnalyses (GN-MEBA).
Formerly
group 8 of the ANRT (Association Nationale de la Recherche Technique)
(site in French).
NM Bureau
of Mines and Minerals Resources, New Mexico. The analyses for dating
monazite were performed using a CAMECA SX-100 electron microprobe at New
Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
John Fournelle at the University of Wisconsin is maintaining a SX-users
listserver. To subscribe, send an email requesting addition to the
list to johnf@geology.wisc.edu
SIMS
The US SIMS
Workshop, for a lot of information from the SIMS community.
Fondazione bruno Kessler (formerly Istituto Trentino di Cultura),
Trento, Italy. Physics & Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces.
Division Head: Mariano Anderle. Objectives: to develop analytical methods
and to characterize the physical chemistry of inorganic and organic materials,
with special reference to the surfaces....
Probion is an
independant company providing customized material analysis to industry
and Research Laboratories. We have a new location near Paris. Our
technical staff has extensive experience in the analysis of surface and
thin film composition of silicon based structures as well as compound
semiconductors.
The RTG Mikroanalysis GmbH Berlin is a service-oriented enterprise
focusing its main activities on microanalysis by means of Secondary
Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS). Based on many years experience with SIMS today we are capable
of making optimum use of the method. Two CAMECA
mass spectrometers are available (ims 4f, ims 4f-E6). RTG is located in the
modern science and technology park Adlershof in the southeast of Berlin...
IMS 1270-1280 users
Welcome
to the UCLA Ion Microprobe
group home page (IMS 1270). Here you can find information about our
laboratory, our research, and user access to the NSF-supported ion microprobe
facility.
NORDSIMS Stockholm
Ion Microprobe homepage. The Nordsim-laboratory is
located in the Laboratory for Isotope Geology at the Swedish Museum of
Natural History in Stockholm. Nordsim is a Nordic facility, funded jointly
by Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. It is based around a Cameca IMS1270
ion microprobe,...
Micro-scale
Isotope Geochemistry Group, Institute of Geoscience, Geological
Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology
(AIST). Secondary ion mass spectrometer
(SIMS) Cameca IMS-1270 was installed to GSJ in March 1995, as the
third IMS-1270 in the world and the first large geological SIMS
in Japan...
Northeast National Ion Microprobe Facility (NENIMF)
at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods
Hole, Massachusetts, USA. The NENIMF is one of only two National
Ion Microprobe Facilities supported by the National Science
Foundation (NSF) in the United States of America...
CNRS-NANCY Ion
Microprobe homepage. (IMS1270 & IMS 3f). La
sonde ionique est un instrument d'analyse construit pour mesurer à
l'échelle microscopique les concentrations et les compositions
isotopiques de tous les éléments connus, même à
des teneurs très faibles…
Laboratory of K. Yurimoto, Hokkaido University, Japan. Equipped with IMS 1270.
The Phaesant Memorial Laboratory for Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry,
PML. Okayama University. PML was
founded in 1992 by E. Nakamura and A. Makishima. Equipped with IMS1270 &
IMS 5f. Our
purpose is to apply new and existing geochemical tracers in studies of
the terrestrial and extraterrestrial materials aimed of understanding the
origin, evolution and dynamics of the Earth and the solar system...
NIST, National
Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg,
Maryland, USA. Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, Surface and
Microanalysis division. (IMS 4f & IMS 1270).
Dept
of Geology and Geophysics. The Ion Microprobe Facility
(IMS4f, IMS1270) is located in the School of Geosciences, Grant Institute
at the University
of Edinburgh, U.K. The Facility carries out in-house research and provides
a service to the earth and environmental science community...
The
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Wisc-SIMS, the Wisconsin
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer Laboratory, will explore new applications
of stable isotope chemistry to Earth Sciences as well as...
Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics & Planetology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, The W. M. Keck Cosmochemistry Laboratory supports interdisciplinary
research into the origin of the solar system through detailed studies
of a variety of materials including meteorites, interplanetary dust
particles (IDPs), and samples returned by NASA missions...
(some)
NanoSIMS users
CalTech Center for Microanalysis: The newly established Center for Microanalysis at Caltech houses a NanoSIMS 50L and an IMS 7f-GEO, providing expertise for microanalysis of geological, meteoritic and synthetic materials. Research projects carried out at CCM are most varied, ranging from cosmochemistry to experimental studies on climate change, geochronology, in-situ studies of microbial communities, materials science engineering...
Information about the NanoSIMS
at Washington
University's McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Saint Louis,
MO, USA. Many abstracts in the astrophysics field, downloadable in pdf
format.
The National Resource for
Imaging Mass Spectrometry (NRIMS)
at Harvard Medical School & Brigham Women's Hospital is one of 66
biomedical technology research centers supported by the National Institutes
of Health (NIH). Home of the prototype of a revolutionary Multi-isotope
quantitative Imaging Mass Spectrometer (MIMS)....
Max Planck Institute
for Chemistry, Cosmochemistry department. The Cosmochemistry Department
consists of several groups of scientists and technical personnel whose
research interests and activities span a wide variety of fields in cosmochemical
and space sciences. Many abstracts in the astrophysics
field, downloadable in pdf format.
Institut
Curie, Orsay, France ANALYTICAL IMAGING OF THE CELL BY SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY
(SIMS MICROSCOPY). Introduction: Of the various
analytical methods developed in microscopy during the latter half of
the century, SIMS imaging is probably one of the most powerful and sophisticated.
Originally introduced...
The SAM (Science Analysis of Materials) in Luxemburg. The Departement Science and Analysis of Materials (SAM) started its activities
in 1992. SAM is an analytical laboratory specializing in characterization and
failure analysis...
The Department of Materials, University of Oxford. The Cameca NanoSims 50 is an ultra high resolution chemical imaging facility combining the
sensitivity of a dynamic SIMS with a lateral resolution of about 100nm.
Our machine was delivered in August 2002 and is...
Established
in 1970, the Centre for Microscopy
and Microanalysis, in Perth, Autralia, provides essential teaching
and research infrastructure in electron microscopy, light microscopy
and microanalysis to the Universities, the Government of Western
Australia and local industry....
LEME - Laboratoire d'Étude de la Matière Extraterrestre, National Museum of Natural History, Paris - France.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California - USA. Biology, Materials, Space sciences. CMLS Directorate.
TAP
GPM - Rouen University, France,
group UMR 6634 CNRS-INSA Rouen of Pr. D. Blavette. Includes the tomographic
atom probe group with images, bibliography of the group, etc...
Metallic
Nanostructure Group of NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan (Dr. Hono's Atom Probe group).
Materials Engineering Laboratory in National Institute for
Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan.
Institut fur Materialphysik, Universitat Gottingen, Germany. Tomography by Atom Probe / Field Ion Microscopy. Leader: PD Dr. Talat Al-Kassab. Research topics: Phase transformations...:
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Department of Applied Physics, Instrumentation. 3D Atom probe field ion microscope. The atom probe is an instrument of analysis with atomic resolution...
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