The Microbeam Facility in Geological Sciences is set up as a regional facility to serve the needs of universities, industry and government institutions with an electron microprobe and LAM-HR-ICP-mass spectrometer, and a scanning electron microscope and image analysis system, and includes the following
equipment:

• Thermo-Finnigan Element2 HR-ICP-MS with Merchantek
  LUV213 laser
• CAMECA SX100 electron microprobe with PGT EDS and
  5WDS spectrometers equipped with windows based
  operating system
• Cambridge Stereoscan 120 Scanning Electron
  Microscope with back scattered electron detector,
  energy dispersive X-ray detector, and digital image
  store facility
• Technosyn cold cathode luminescence system
• Fluid inclusion stage

LA-ICP-MS Laboratory Manager: Panseok Yang (Panseok.Yang@ad.umanitoba.ca)
Microprobe and SEM Laboratory Manager: Ravinder Sidhu (Ravinder.Sidhu@ad.uanitoba.ca)