Equipment Proposal: Portable On-Line X-Ray Diffraction System

该奖项为先进工程纤维和薄膜（CAEFF）工程研究中心（ERC）提供资金，以获得专门设计用于测量应力对晶体生长以及纤维和薄膜形成过程中结晶和非晶取向的影响的便携式X射线衍射设备。 该系统将由布鲁克分析X射线系统公司设计、建造和安装，与ERC工作人员密切合作。 供应商将提供操作和维护培训。 这种设备将克服过去在纤维和薄膜形成过程中监测应力对晶体生长和取向的影响所需的极长曝光时间的问题。 这一设备将在紧急救济协调员现有的和计划的联机设备与紧急救济协调员的脱机分析能力之间建立关键的联系。

This award provides funds to the Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Advanced Engineering Fibers and Films (CAEFF) to acquire a portable x-ray diffraction device specially designed to measure the effect of stress on crystal growth as well as crystalline and amorphous orientation during both fiber and film formation. The system will be designed, built, and installed by Bruker Analytical x-Ray Systems, Inc., in close collaboration with the ERC staff. The vendor will provide training on operation and maintenance. This equipment will overcome the problem of extremely long exposure times needed in the past to monitor the effect of stress on crystall growth and orientation during fiber and film formation. This equipment will establish the critical links between the ERC's present and projected on-line equipment and the ERC's off-line analytical capabilities.