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)

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

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.

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.

Micro furnaces for in situ high temperature experiments

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