Acquisition of an Automated Electron Probe Microanalyzer

该奖项为收购提供一半的资金 安装自动电子探针显微分析仪， 在材料表征实验室的 宾夕法尼亚州立大学地球与矿物科学学院 大学宾夕法尼亚州立大学致力于提供 剩下一半的资金需要。 微量分析仪的主要用户将包括工作人员和 地质、冶金、矿产系学生 加工和燃料科学。需要准确描述 天然和合成固体的化学组成， 微米的空间分辨率是一个常见的要求， 地球学院的许多赞助研究项目 矿物科学。

This award provides one-half the funding for the acquisition of an automated electron probe microanalyzer to be installed and operated in the Materials Characterization Laboratory of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. Penn State University is committed to providing the remaining half of the funding required. Major users of the microanalyzer will include staff and students of the departments of Geosiences, Metallurgy, Minerals Processing and Fuel Sciences. The need to accurately characterize chemical composition of both natural and synthetic solids with a spatial resolution of micrometers is a requirement that runs common to many of the sponsored research projects at the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.