Instrumentation Updates

General Information

Updated 18th August, 2009

PROFESSIONAL OFFICER ABSENCE
The Professional Officer, Dr Elizabeth Carter, is away from Thursday the 20th of August and will be returning on Monday the 21st of September, 2009.

FACILITY ACCESS & USER ENQUIRES
The Facility is to only be used only by trained and authorised users.

In the absence of the Professional Officer user enquires can be directed to , 9351 7600 or to the Facility Directory , 9351 4269.

ONLINE BOOKING SYSTEM

The Online Booking System is now available. This system can be accessed from computers on campus and also off campus if USYD users have setup VPN.

Instrumentation Status

Instrument
Status
 Comments
BrukerMultiRAM Raman Spectrometer
Operational  
Bruker FTIR/Hyperion 3000 Spectrometer
Operational  Focal Plane Array (FPA) detector - not working properly.
Bruker FTIR IFS 66V
Operational

PhotoAcoustic Cell requires alignment.

New ATR accessory doesn't fit in instrument.

Bruker FT-Raman RFS100
Operational  
Renishaw inVia Raman Spectrometer
Operational Instrument upgraded to Streamline, fully re-aligned and serviced.

Renishaw RM 2000 Spectrometer

Operational

Instrument fully re-aligned and serviced (August, 09).
All excitation lines operational with the exception of 752 nm.
Mapping stage not functional - currently under investigation.

JY U1000 Raman Spectrometer
Operational  
Bruker Tensor FTIR Spectrometer with HTS/XT Operational  
Cary 5 UV-VIS Spectrometer
Operational