Equipment & Facilities
Special equipment/facilities housed in the Department of Physics:
- Tescan Mira3 FEG-SEM EDAX EDS detector
- Scintillating fiber development laboratory
- Balloon-borne cosmic ray detectors
- Space Weathering Laboratory
- JEOL 840 Scanning Electron Microscope
- Four noble-gas mass spectrometers
- Optical Microscope Laboratory / clean room
- A variety of laboratory equipment for preparing and observing solid samples
- High Performance Computing Center
- The department also houses machine and glassblowing shops.
Special equipment/facilities housed in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences:
- Geosciences Node of NASA’s Planetary Data System
- High Performance Computing Facility
- Electron Microprobe Laboratory (JEOL JXA-8200)
- X-ray Diffraction Laboratory (Bruker d8 Advance)
- Fossett Laboratory for Virtual Planetary Exploration
- CEM Mars6 Microwave Reaction System
- Cavity ring-down spectroscopy analyzer for stable isotope ratios in water
- Thermo iCap 7400 DUO Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emissions Spectrometer (ICP-OES)
- Thermo Dionex Integrion Ion Chromatograph (IC)
- Elementar varioMACROcube CHNS Analyzer
- Seal AQ300 Discrete Analyzer
- Atomic Force Microscope
- Gas Chromatography Instrumentation for Analysis of Organic Compounds (Gas Chromatographs coupled to Flame Ionization Detector (GCFID), Mass Spectrometer (GCMS), Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer (GCIRMS, Gas Bench IRMS, ECSIRMS))
- High-Pressure and Temperature Chemistry
- High-Temperature Controlled Atmosphere Furnaces
- Two laser Raman microprobes with a multichannel analyzer
- Micro X-Ray Fluorescence
- Near and Mid Infrared Spectroscopy Laboratory