Optical microscopy

The laboratory of physical-optics methods offers the following services:

• quantitative and semiquantitative analysis of heavy minerals
• quantitative determination of microhardness (VHN)
• quantitative determination of reflectivity
• refractive index determination
• determination of optical parameters in transmitted and reflected light
• microphotography

Equipment

• stereomicroscope NIKON SMZ800
• polarizing microscope NIKON ECLIPSE E 600 with a set of lenses CFI Achromat Series for diascopic observation (in transmitted light), set of lenses CFILU Plan Fluor for episcopic observation (in reflected light), camera Nikon DS-U2/L2 USB
• SW NIS-Elements AR 3.1 with image analysis
• microscope Ortholux-Pol with equipment for measuring of reflectivity and micro-hardness (VHN) Leitz
• luminescence lamp
• Pulfrich and Abbé refractometer
• one and two circle goniometer