New compact AMS system to further promote 14C radiocarbon analyses

New MICADAS machine / Neues MICADAS-Gerät
The new MICADAS system will enable higher sample throughput and, later on, smaller sample sizes. More technical details of the new machine will be presented at the 14C course from the 25th to the 29th September 2017, but can also be found in chapter 8 in the book Radiocarbon and Climate Change by E.A.G. Schuur, E.R.M. Druffel, and S.E. Trumbore (Eds.). Valérie Schwab at MPI for Biogeochemistry will serve as contact person for scientific users interested in analyzing smaller sample sizes.
MICADAS will replace the old machine with its large 3MV Tandetron accelerator, which has very successfully supported our research at our institute for many years.