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Instruments & equipment

NordSIMS-Vegacenter is located in the Department of Geosciences at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. The infrastructure provides the Swedish Geoscience community with state-of-the-art microbeam analytical technology focused on in situ material analysis at the micron scale.

Such techniques are essential to a wide range of research topics in the geosciences today, permitting both fundamental and innovative investigation of chemical and isotopic composition of both natural (minerals, fossils, etc.) and synthetic materials. Our goal is to create an internationally competitive facility and establish Sweden as a clear leader in micro-analysis that supports high quality and high profile science.

NordSIMS

Formerly a joint Nordic facility, since 2018 NordSIMS is part of the Swedish Research Council funded NordSIMS-Vegacenter...

Other supporting facilities

In the department, there is a laboratory for dissolution of whole rock and mineral samples, as well as a space adapted f...

Scanning Electron Microscopy and Raman spectroscopy

Scanning electron microscope (SEM) with accessories for energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy analysis (EDS) and waveleng...

TIMS

The thermal ionization mass spectrometer (TIMS) is a Triton from Thermo Finnigan that was installed in 2006. It is equip...

Vegacenter

The Vegacenter is built around two inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers (ICP-MS) connected to a laser ablation ...