Opened in January 2013, the Center for Advanced Surface Analysis (CASA) is a common UNIL/EPFL platform located in the Geopolis building of University of Lausanne.

This Swiss research center is hosting 3 laboratories, among which the SwissSIMS lab, organised around the following last generations micro-analytical Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometric (SIMS) instruments:

• A CAMECA SIMS ion microprobe 1280-HR
  SwissSIMS laboratory led by Prof. Lukas Baumgartner – UNIL

• A CAMECA NanoSIMS N50L
  Laboratory of Biological Geochemistry led by Prof. Anders Meibom – EPFL

• Two LA-ICP-MS (Quadrupole Elan 6100 DRC and Sector-field Element XR)
  LA-ICP-MS laboratory led by Prof. Othmar Müntener (UNIL) and by Prof. Urs Schaltegger (UNIGE)

 

For more information, please visit the CASA website