Instrumentation & Labs

Facilities

Analytical instrumentation and laboratories supporting geochemistry, geochronology, and Earth system research.

Centre for Earth Sciences Indian Institute of Science

Agilent® 5110 ICP-OES

Plasma source optical emission spectrometer capable of determining concentrations of metals and metalloids from parts per billion to parts per million level

Sambuddha Misra

Agilent® 8900 QQQ-ICP-MS

Triple quadrupole ICP-MS with a collision reaction cell, capable of determining concentrations of metals and metalloids from low parts per trillion to parts per million level

Sambuddha Misra

Class 10000 Clean Laboratory (Metal and Volatile Free)

Metal and volatile free clean laboratory with Class 10 work benches, allowing trace level metal and metalloid sample processing.

Sambuddha Misra

Quadrupole ICPMS (Thermo X Series II)

Single collector (SEM) instrument operating in analog and pulse counting modes, allowing simultaneous analyses of elements from wt% to ppt levels.

Ramananda Chakrabarti

Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer (Thermo Triton Plus)

Multi-collector TIMS equipped with 9 Faraday collectors and 4 ion counters, routinely used to analyze Sr, Nd and Ca stable isotopes.

Ramananda Chakrabarti

Thermo Scientific IRMS Delta V with dual inlet and continious flow mode Installed 2013

Dual-inlet and continuous-flow IRMS dedicated to O17 study in CO2, connected to a Flash TC/EA peripheral for carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in solids.

Prosenjit Ghosh

Thermo Scientific IRMS MAT 253 with Multi collector Installed 2008 (Cutting Edge Research grant, MHRD XI Plan)

Dedicated to CO2 clumped isotope research, attached to a Gas Bench peripheral for oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in water and vapour samples.

Prosenjit Ghosh

Thermo Scientific mid-infrared laser based, isotope ratio infrared spectrometer

Mid-infrared laser-based isotope ratio infrared spectrometer for high-precision stable isotope measurements

Prosenjit Ghosh

Wavelength Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (WDXRF) Spectrometer

Rigaku ZSX Primus IV, a tube-above sequential WDXRF spectrometer for high-precision quantitative elemental analysis from Beryllium to Uranium.

Sajeev Krishnan

The Deep Earth Laboratory houses an experiment that simulates convection within the Earth's core. The role of the mantle in organizing core convection is understood in an Earth-like dynamical regime.

Binod Sreenivasan