Acquisition of a New Electron Microprobe

该奖项提供了购买电子微探针分析系统所需资金的一半，该系统将安装在华盛顿卡内基研究所的地球物理实验室。卡内基研究所承诺为此次收购提供剩余的资金。电子微探针系统将主要用于地球物理实验室和邻近的地磁系的工作人员的研究项目。对固体中主要元素和许多微量元素进行快速和定量的化学分析，其空间分辨率在微米范围内，在华盛顿卡内基研究所的这两个校区进行的实验和观测岩石学、矿物物理学和晶体学的广泛研究中是必不可少的。

This award provides one-half the funding necessary for the acquisition of an electron microprobe analysis system that will be installed in the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The Carnegie Institution is committed to providing the remaining funds for this acquisition. The electron microprobe system will be used primarily in research projects by the staff of the Geophysical Laboratory and the neighboring Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. The rapid and quantitative chemical analysis of major elements and many trace elements in solids, with a spatial resolution in the range of microns, is essential in a wide spectrum of research in experimental and observational petrology, mineral physics, and crystallography undertaken at these two campuses of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.