Research
Scope of research available for archaeometric work:
Contact via the Chairman of the Committee: pnied@amu.edu.pl
Determination of element content
Non-destructive techniques
- X-ray fluorescence (XRF)
- scanning electron microscopy with X-ray microanalysis (SEM/EDX)
Micro-destructive techniques
- laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP MS)
- laser ablation inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (LA-ICP OES)
- laser induced breakdown spectrometry (LIBS)
Destructive techniques
- inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP MS)
- inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP OES)
Determination of the content of element forms
- high performance liquid chromatography inductively coupled plasma ionization mass spectrometry (HPLC-ICP MS)
- high performance liquid chromatography inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (HPLC-ICP OES)
- Mössbauer spectroscopy
Tests for the presence of chemical compounds and minerals
- Fourier infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
- visible and near infrared spectroscopy (Vis-NIR)
- X-ray diffraction (XRD)
Color analyses
- reflectance spectrophotometry
Sedimentological analyses
- sieve analysis
- microscopic particle size measurements
Microscopic analysis
- scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
- digital optical microscopy with image analysis
Documentation of historic objects and objects
- 3D scanning
- reflectance transform imaging (RTI)
- polynomial texture maps (PTM)
- shadowless photography
- microscopic photography