ChromaCL2 iBSED Detector

Model ChromaCL2

Live color cathodoluminescence imaging for your scanning electron microscope.

Advantages

The ChromaCL2™ iBSED detector is a color cathodoluminescence imaging system for use in scanning electron microscopes (SEMs). The system is suitable for many petrographic and earth science applications where color cathodoluminescence (CL) imaging can reveal geochemical processes.

Reveal macro- and micro-texture in sedimentary rocks

Collect topographic, composition, and color CL images simultaneously in a single pass of the electron beam

Color cathodoluminescence images aid the interpretation of geochemistry changes

High-efficiency detection enables fastest time-to-data, images with highest spatial resolution and reduces the likelihood of misinterpreting data as a result of e-beam damage

Carbonate imaging kit to overcome phosphorescence from some carbonate minerals in scanned CL images

Effectively unlimited field of view with field stitching software module

Simple operation

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ChromaCL2 System

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Cathodoluminescence techniques for the geosciences

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Color cathodoluminescence images of collection of polished zircon grains in epoxy mount; images acquired simultaneously using ChromaCL2 iBSED and field stitching software module. Many grains are highly zoned, and of a type that has been interpreted to be igneous in origin. Several grains also exhibit metamorphic rims.

Quartz grains from granite and metamorphic source with low temperature quartz cement (bluish). There is a later (hotter) overprint (reddish) along grain boundaries in the overgrowth. Image courtesy of Dr. J. Schieber, Indiana University.

Color cathodoluminescence reveals provenance of populations of quartz grains (a) Cleveland shale (Devonian); low grade metamorphic acadian orogeny; (b) Barnett shale (Miss.) Texas; low grade metamorphic ouchita orogeny; (c) Unspecified; (d) Santa Barbara basin shale (modern); plutonic (Sierra Nevada) and metamorphic (recycled coast range sediments); (e) Mancos shale, Utah; low and medium grade metamorphic quartz, sevier orogeny; (f) Huroh shale (Devonian); medium grade metamorphic and plutonic. All samples prepared using Ilion+ II broad beam argon milling system. Images (a), (b) and (d) –(f) courtesy of Dr. J. Schieber, Indiana University.