Upgrade of the University of Kentucky ARL-SEMQ Electron Microprobe

该合同将为一种设备提供部分支持， 升级到肯塔基州大学的电子显微探针 实验室电子探针的快速检测能力 固体的定量化学分析与微米尺度空间 决议将在校园范围和区域范围内提供 支持研究项目和研究生教学的基础。的 仪器位于地质科学系， 也将用于教师和研究生在材料 科学和物理以及研究人员的 肯塔基州地质调查局。研究课题将包括研究 变质火山岩、下地壳捕虏体、煤研究、薄- 薄膜分析和高温特性 超导化合物

This award will provide partial support for an equipment upgrade to the University of Kentucky electron microprobe laboratory. The electron microprobe's capabilities for rapid quantitative chemical analysis of solids with micron-scale spatial resolution will be made available on a campus-wide and regional basis in support of research projects and graduate instruction. The instrument is housed in the Department of Geological Sciences and will also be used by faculty and graduate students in Materials Science and in Physics as well as the research staff of the Kentucky Geological Survey. Research topics will include the study of metamorphic terranes, lower crust xenoliths, coal studies, thin- film analysis, and characterization of high-temperature superconducting compounds.