A Unique Microsampling Device

MicroMill is a microsampling 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.

Study Growth Zones in Diagenetic Carbonates: Subsampling by MicroMill to provide high resolution of elemental, isotopic chemistries, and intra-zonal variation of the crystal structure.

Accretionary Growth Banding in Mollusca shell: Subsampling within annual growth banding of molluscan shells to reconstruct seasonal variation present during the life of this organism.

Micromachining