Upgrading of Electron Microprobe Automation

9526375埃文斯这笔赠款为华盛顿大学地质科学系的电子微探针升级提供了部分资金。具体地说，基于PC的计算机自动化系统和新的电子模块将取代不再支持和不可靠的Noran TN5500计算机和驱动样品台和波长色散光谱仪(WDS)的TN5600电子设备。这种电磁脉冲是岩石学研究中重要的地区性地球化学分析设施，更换一个已有十年历史、无法修复并目前造成运行效率问题的计算机系统，是一种成本效益高的方式，可以增加昂贵的分析仪器的使用年限。这一电磁脉冲的升级将使一些研究人员能够继续并提高生产率，进行地压测量-测温、主要元素地球化学和火成岩和变质矿物热力学的研究。***

9526375 Evans This grant provides partial funding for an upgrade to the University of Washington's electron microprobe (EMP) in the Department of Geological Sciences. Specifically, a PC-based computer automation system and new electronics module would replace a no longer supported and unreliable NORAN TN5500 computer and the TN5600 electronics which drive the sample stage and wavelength dispersive spectrometers (WDS). This EMP represents an important regional facility for geochemical analyses in petrologic research and the replacement of a ten-year old computer system that is beyond repair and currently poses operational efficiency problems is a cost effective way to add useful years of life to an expensive piece of analytical instrumentation. Upgrading of this EMP will allow continued and increased productivity for a number of researchers for studies in geobarometry-thermometry, major element geochemistry and thermodynamics of igneous and metamorphic minerals. ***