Upgrading of Electron Microprobe Automation

小行星9526375 这笔赠款为华盛顿大学地质科学系的电子微探针（EMP）升级提供部分资金。 具体来说，基于PC的计算机自动化系统和新的电子模块将取代不再受支持且不可靠的NORAN TN 5500计算机以及驱动样品台和波长色散光谱仪（WDS）的TN 5600电子设备。 该EMP代表了岩石学研究中用于地球化学分析的重要区域设施，并且更换使用了10年的旧计算机系统（该计算机系统已无法修复并且目前造成操作效率问题）是增加昂贵的分析仪器的使用寿命的具有成本效益的方式。 这一电磁脉冲的升级将使一些研究人员能够继续和提高生产力，进行地质压力-温度测量、主要元素地球化学和火成岩和变质矿物的热力学研究。 ***

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. ***