Upgrading of Hardware and Software at the Rutgers Electron Microprobe Facility

9910249delaney这笔拨款为罗格斯大学地质科学系电子显微探针（EMP）设施升级的费用提供部分支持。通过NASA宇宙化学计划获得的匹配资金将与这笔拨款相结合，将1987年的老式JEOL JXA-8600超级探测器从目前基于DEC PDP 11的计算机控制系统升级到运行Windows NT的基于pc的系统。一个基于pc的现代自动化系统将能够集成波长色散和能量色散光谱以及背散射电子成像，并将大大延长仍然可行的EMP的使用寿命和能力。罗格斯大学包括杰里米·德莱尼、罗杰·赫文斯和克劳德·赫茨伯格在内的教职员工将使用电磁脉冲继续对球粒陨石、火山玻璃和高压实验电荷进行微分析研究。此外，EMP将促进布林莫尔大学和西切斯特大学的区域地球科学家进行研究。* * * *

9910249DelaneyThis grant provides partial support for the costs of upgrading the Rutgers University Electron Microprobe (EMP) Facility in the Department of Geological Sciences. Matching funds secured through the NASA Cosmochemistry program will combine with funds from this grant to upgrade the 1987 vintage JEOL JXA-8600 Superprobe from its present DEC PDP 11-based computer control system to a PC-based system running Windows NT. A modern PC-based automation system will be capable of integrated wavelength dispersive and energy dispersive spectroscopy and backscattered electron imaging and will dramatically extend the useful life and capabilities of a still viable EMP. The EMP will be used in continuing microanalytical studies of achondritic meteorites, volcanic glasses and high pressure experimental charges by faculty at Rutgers including Jeremy Delaney, Roger Hewins and Claude Herzberg. In addition, the EMP will facilitate studies by regional geoscientists from Bryn Mawr and West Chester Universities. ****