X-ray diffraction

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Huber-1

  • 4-circle Eulerian cradle
  • point detector
  • Mo source
  • Controlled with Single software (R.J. Angel)
  • Accurate and precise unit cell parameters determination using 8-position centring procedure
  • Minimum crystal size 80 micron (diameter)

Huber-2

  • 4-circleEulerian cradle
  • point detector
  • Mo microfocus source
  • motorized z stage
  • Controlled with Single software (R.J. Angel)
  • Accurate and precise unit cell parameters determination using 8-position centring procedure
  • Minimum crystal size 20 micron (diameter)

Rigaku XtaLab SuperNova

  • 4 circle kappa cradle
  • Dectris Pilatus 200kR area detector
  • Rigaku Mova Mo microfocus source
  • Controlled with CrysalisPro software
  • Intensity data collection devoted to structural refinement
  • Minimum crystal size 20 micron (diameter=
  • Equipped with Oxford System LN2 cryostream for low T measurements (100-400K)

Raman spectroscopy

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Horiba LabRAM HR Evolution

  • green laser (Nd-Yag 532 nm/100mW)
  • red laser (HeNe 633nm/30mW) (w/ ULF filter)
  • motorized x-y-z stage for 3D mapping
  • Magnification: 5x, 20x, 50xLWD, 100x
  • Controlled with Labspec6
  • Symphony CCD detector LN2 cooled

Horiba Xplora One (currently located at the petrology lab of the University of Genova)

  • green laser (Nd-Yag 532 nm/100mW)
  • red laser (HeNe 633nm/17mW)
  • blue laser (diode-pumped solid-state 785nm)
  • motorized x-y-z stage for 3D mapping
  • Magnification: 5x, 20x, 50xLWD, 100x
  • Controlled with Labspec6
  • 1024×256 TE air-cooled scientific CCD

Optical microscopy

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Zeiss Axio Imager m2m: high-resolution optical microscopes (polarized transmitted and reflected light) with motorized x-y-z stage for high-resolution 3D mapping. Equipped with 5x, 10x, 20x (LWD), 50x and 100x epiplan objectives for polarized light observation.

Zeiss Axioscope 5 polarization: high-resolution optical microscopes (polarized transmitted and reflected light) with motorized x-y stage for high-resolution 3D mapping. Equipped with 5x, 10x, 20x, 50x and 100x epiplan objectives for polarized light observation.

Zeiss Stemi 508 stereo microscope with 8:1 apochromatic zoom with long arm stand for a long distance of work. Reflected and transmitted light.

Computational resources

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Aethia workstation EXA-W 20 CORE XEON (2 Intel Xeon 10 core processors, 16GB DDR4 RAM)

Aethia Mini Cluster TERA-4 with 4 nodes (2 Intel Xeon 8 core processors and 16Gb DDR4 RAM)

Software: Crystal-14 and Crystal-17 for ab-initio modeling.

Non-ambient devices

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Micro furnaces for in situ high temperature experiments

ETH-type Diamond anvil cell for in situ high pressure experiments