Acquisition of an Automated Electron Probe Microanalyzer

该合同提供了购买自动电子探针显微分析仪的一半资金，该分析仪将在宾夕法尼亚州立大学地球与矿物科学学院材料表征实验室安装和运行。宾夕法尼亚州立大学承诺提供所需资金的剩余一半。微型分析仪的主要用户将包括地质系、冶金系、矿物加工系和燃料科学系的工作人员和学生。需要以微米的空间分辨率准确地表征天然和合成固体的化学成分，这是地球与矿物科学学院许多受赞助的研究项目的共同要求。

This award provides one-half the funding for the acquisition of an automated electron probe microanalyzer to be installed and operated in the Materials Characterization Laboratory of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. Penn State University is committed to providing the remaining half of the funding required. Major users of the microanalyzer will include staff and students of the departments of Geosiences, Metallurgy, Minerals Processing and Fuel Sciences. The need to accurately characterize chemical composition of both natural and synthetic solids with a spatial resolution of micrometers is a requirement that runs common to many of the sponsored research projects at the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.