Laboratory

The laboratory is a wooden structure (20 m x 8 m), built in 1976 on a concrete foundation without any iron reinforcement and without the use of iron nails or other permanent magnetic objects.

The laboratory building houses a large research hall for the major instruments, a shielded room (6 m x 4 m), 3 offices, each with 2 or 3 workplaces, a small workshop, and a storage room for about 30'000 conventional paleomagnetic samples. 

A small well-furnished kitchen and a bathroom are available for the laboratory users.  

The distance to the nearest public transportation is about 15 minutes by foot. The laboratory can also be reached by car.

Measurement instruments

Highly sensitive instruments are available for measurements of the magnetization of rock, sediment and organic samples, which can be very weak. Instruments can detect remanent magnetizations from 10-8 emu and induced magnetizations of 10-6 emu.

Some instruments are housed in a special magnetically shielded room.

Instruments which are not sensitive to the influence of the earth's field or which apply large fields, are housed in the main Research Hall.

Application of our instrumentation is not restricted to geophysical purposes. We have been involved in projects examining biomedical samples and synthetic coated and uncoated ferromagnetic nanoparticles of varying composition.

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