Development of an automatic gas handling system for microscale AMS 14C measurements

Development of a fraction collector for coupling gas chromatography with an AMS facility

“…Currently we are not able to measure samples containing less than 10 lg of carbon caused by background. The gas cathodes used will be replaced by ones of slightly different type which were used in our laboratory in the past [2]. Apart from that we push the development of new gas cathodes in order to increase the current yield.…”

On the Prospects of AMS 14C with Real-Time Sample Preparation and Separation

“…Bronk Ramsey et al (2004b) and Uhl et al (2004Uhl et al ( , 2007. The method has been used as part of the present project for dating carbonates and for running test samples in connection with the development of amino-acid specific 14 C dating of bones (Tripp et al 2006).…”

Status report on the Erlangen AMS facility

“…With this gas handling system it is possible to analyze samples routinely with minimal loss of material and down to sample sizes of only a few lg. For more details see [5].…”

“…This opens the opportunity of efficient GC-AMS with many possible applications in the biomedical and the environmental sciences (see [4,5]). …”