ESL MicroMill Micro-Sampling Device (discontinued)

This product was discontinued.
Recommended replacement: ESL MicroMill2 Micro-Sampling Device.

 

The ESL MicroMill is a micro-sampling device designed for high resolution milling to recover sample powder for chemical and isotopic analysis. The combination of submicron stage resolution and positional accuracy, real-time video observation and a custom designed software system allows for sampling of complex accretionary structures in skeletal and crystalline materials.

Description

Features

  • Sub-micron sample motion control
  • High-precision milling
  • Sample height detection and tilt correction by a drill-tip sensor, contour-following function
  • Sample map navigation increases sample-area field of view
  • 50mm of computer-driven sample movement on X, Y and Z axes
  • Data/image file recoordination, including save, recall and export

Applications

  • Complex crystal growth zonation: Subsampling provides high-resolution elemental isotopic chemistries and intra-zonal variations of the crystal structure
  • Accretionary growth structure examination: Subsampling within annual growth banding of molluscan shells allows reconstructing seasonal variations present during the life of an organism, such as a clam
  • Precise sampling of growth zones in speleothems: determine seasonal changes by precise sampling in complex growth zone profiles
  • Sampling from otoliths and bone: evaluate elemental and isotopic composition of bonelike materials through precise milling