Tandem (MS)

The Tandem facility is based on a 6 MV HVEC EN-Tandem accelerator, which was installed at ETH Zurich in the early 1960s for nuclear physics experiments. In 2011, the system has been upgraded with a Pelletron charging system. Over the past decades, the focus of the activities has moved to applied physics, mainly accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) and materials science. Today, the Tandem offers ion beams of nearly all elements over a wide range of energies. For materials science applications the system is hosting an implantation chamber and an MeV-SIMS microprobe where the pure E/q beam transport on the high energy side is exploited to produce primary ion beams with masses of up to 720 amu.