Research Project
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
(U-Th)/He chronology, which show the lowest closure temperature among chronological methods, is useful for analysis of geological history under low temperature such as formation processes of mountains. Thus, in-situ microanalyses of He in minerals are demanded. However, helium microanalyses are limited larger than a spatial resolution of several tens micrometers using conventional techniques, which is not smaller than a typical range of He recoil losses. Here, we develop sputtered neutral mass spectrometry to analyze He in natural zircon crystal. We have succeeded that the in-situ analysis can apply to measure He in zircon having more than 1 ppm concentrations with a spatial resolution of 7 μm which is much smaller than recoil loss range of alpha-particles.
All 2017 2016 2015 Other
All Journal Article (18 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 11 results, Peer Reviewed: 18 results, Open Access: 13 results, Acknowledgement Compliant: 12 results) Presentation (60 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 34 results, Invited: 11 results) Remarks (1 results)
Meteorit. Planet. Sci.
Volume: 51 Issue: 1 Pages: 56-59
10.1111/maps.12583
Geophysical Research Letters
Volume: - Issue: 9 Pages: 4239-4246
10.1002/2016gl068377
Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta
Volume: 185 Pages: 383-393
10.1016/j.gca.2016.01.005
Frontiers in Earth Science
Volume: 4 Pages: 88-88
10.3389/feart.2016.00088
Nature Communications
Volume: 7 Issue: 1 Pages: 12844-12844
10.1038/ncomms12844
Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry
Volume: 64 Issue: 10 Pages: 601-622
10.1369/0022155416665577
Surf. Interface Anal.
Volume: 48 Issue: 11 Pages: 1122-1126
10.1002/sia.6112
Volume: 48 Issue: 11 Pages: 1190-1193
10.1002/sia.6085
Surface and Interface Analysis
Volume: 48 Issue: 11 Pages: 1181-1184
10.1002/sia.6119
GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
Volume: 49 Issue: 5 Pages: 559-566
10.2343/geochemj.2.0385
130005101418
Volume: 49 Issue: 4 Pages: 377-391
10.2343/geochemj.2.0363
130005092568
Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.
Volume: 433 Pages: 350-359
10.1016/j.epsl.2015.11.014
Volume: 163 Pages: 27-39
10.1016/j.gca.2015.04.052
American Mineralogist
Volume: 100 Issue: 7 Pages: 1483-1492
10.2138/am-2015-5237
Volume: 169 Pages: 99-114
10.1016/j.gca.2015.07.037
Geophys. Res. Lett.
Volume: 42 Issue: 16 Pages: 6582-6589
10.1002/2015gl064486
Volume: 100 Issue: 10 Pages: 2330-2335
10.2138/am-2015-5148
J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth
Volume: 120 Issue: 12 Pages: 8259-8280
10.1002/2015jb012123
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