Upgrade of the University of Kentucky ARL-SEMQ Electron Microprobe

该合同将为肯塔基大学电子探针实验室的设备升级提供部分支持。电子微探针能够以微米级的空间分辨率对固体进行快速定量化学分析，将在全校和区域范围内提供，以支持研究项目和研究生教学。该仪器设在地质科学系，也将由材料科学和物理学的教员和研究生以及肯塔基州地质调查局的研究人员使用。研究课题将包括变质地体研究、下地壳包体研究、煤炭研究、薄膜分析和高温超导化合物的表征。

This award will provide partial support for an equipment upgrade to the University of Kentucky electron microprobe laboratory. The electron microprobe's capabilities for rapid quantitative chemical analysis of solids with micron-scale spatial resolution will be made available on a campus-wide and regional basis in support of research projects and graduate instruction. The instrument is housed in the Department of Geological Sciences and will also be used by faculty and graduate students in Materials Science and in Physics as well as the research staff of the Kentucky Geological Survey. Research topics will include the study of metamorphic terranes, lower crust xenoliths, coal studies, thin- film analysis, and characterization of high-temperature superconducting compounds.