Laboratories and Instruments

The CASA facility hosts 4 different laboratories organized around the latest generation of analytical instruments:

SwissSIMS laboratory led by Prof. Johanna Marin-Carbonne (UNIL)

• A CAMECA SIMS ion microprobe 1280-HR

Laboratory of Biological Geochemistry led by Prof. Anders Meibom (EPFL)

• A CAMECA NanoSIMS N50L

LA-ICP-MS laboratory led by Prof. Othmar Müntener (UNIL)

• Two LA-ICP-MS

EMPA laboratory led by Prof. Lukas Baumgartner (UNIL)

• An electron microprobe (Jeol JXA-8530 HyperProbe)

SEM laboratory led by Prof. Allison Daley (UNIL; CamScan MV2300, TESCAN MIRA LMU) and by Prof. Anders Meibom (EPFL; CryoSEM)

• Three Scanning Electron microscopes (CryoSEM Zeiss Gemini 500, CamScan MV2300, TESCAN MIRA LMU)

CASA is housed in “Geopolis” building opened in 2013, offering new laboratory rooms for our instruments as well as necessary facilities for sample preparation. All labs are virtually door to door of each other.