Collaborative Research: Acquisition of an electron microprobe for Oregon State University with remote access facilities for Portland State University

对该提案的支持将使我们能够为俄勒冈州州立大学获得一种新的电子显微探针。 电子微探针的主要分析使命是对固体材料，包括矿物、玻璃、金属、骨、陶瓷和许多其他材料进行成像和小规模化学分析。 它对这些奋进领域的最大贡献是在微米尺度上组合了成分和空间信息。 这台新仪器将取代15年前建立的大学设施的中心仪器，为大学提供分析服务，并与当地工业界建立联系。 设施管理计划旨在让尽可能多的人在允许每个人有效地产生高质量数据的条件下获得数据。 该设施的这一方面将得到波特兰州立大学（PSU）的远程操作站的帮助。 一个工作站加控制面板将安装在PSU的地质系，并通过高速互联网连接到科瓦利斯的俄勒冈州的微探针。 这个远程站将用于PSU的教学和研究，以及与波特兰地区工业界建立更多联系。 俄勒冈州立大学的工作人员将对电子微探针的主要部分（位于Corvallis）进行维护、更换样品和监测标准品。

EAR-0320806KentSupport of the proposal will enable us to acquire a new electron microprobe for Oregon State University. The primary analytical mission of the electron microprobe is to produce images and small scale chemical analyses of solid materials, including minerals, glasses, metals, bone, ceramics and many others. Its greatest contribution to those diverse fields of endeavor is that combination of compositional and spatial information at the micron scale. This new instrument will replace an instrument that has been the center of a university facility established 15 years ago to provide analytical services to the university and to provide a link to the local industrial community. The facility management plan is designed to provide access to the widest number of people under the conditions that allow each of them to efficiently produce high quality data. This aspect of the facility will be aided by a remote operation station at Portland State University (PSU). A workstation plus control panel will be installed at the Department of Geology at PSU and linked by high speed internet connection to the microprobe at Oregon State in Corvallis. This remote station will be used for teaching and research at PSU as well as for the development of additional links with the industrial community in the Portland area. Maintenance of the main part of the electron microprobe (housed in Corvallis), sample change and monitoring of standards will be done by staff at OSU.