Sample carrier centrifuge

A sample carrier centrifuge for a sample carrier having a sample carrier receptacle for holding one or more sample carriers, which can be rotated around a rotation axis and has a holding section into which the sample carrier can be inserted in a loading procedure when the sample carrier receptacle is not rotating, in which section the sample carrier is held in the loaded state of the sample carrier receptacle, and from which section the sample carrier can be removed in an unloading procedure,

• wherein a platform of the sample carrier centrifuge, which is embodied for supporting the sample carrier centrifuge in accordance with said sample carrier centrifuge's designated use, is oriented parallel to the rotation axis, wherein the sample carrier has at least one sample channel extending along an essentially central sample channel longitudinal axis, wherein the sample carrier receptacle is embodied and situated so that when the sample carrier is accommodated in the holding section of the sample carrier receptacle, the sample channel longitudinal axis of said sample channel is oriented orthogonally to the rotation axis, both when the sample carrier receptacle is rotating and when the sample carrier receptacle is not, and wherein the sample carrier receptacle is mounted to a centrifuge housing at two bearing points spaced along the rotation axis and said sample carrier receptacle is able to rotate around the rotation axis while significantly reducing a tendency of the axis to oscillate at high speeds.