Methods and reference materials for SIMS diamond C- and N-isotope analysis.

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Stern, Richard A.

• This report describes the methods and samples utilized (to 2014) within the Canadian Centre for Isotopic Microanalysis (CCIM), University of Alberta, for routine analysis of δ13CVPDB, δ15NAIR, and N abundances of diamonds by secondary ion mass spectrometry (Cameca IMS 1280). Analyses by conventional and SIMS methods are described and evaluated to arrive at calibration values for new diamond reference materials S0270 and S0280.

• Date created

  2014-05-19

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Nitrogen
  • Diamond
  • Isotopes
  • Carbon
  • SIMS

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R39R6H

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International