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

EAR-0320806Kent该提案的支持将使我们能够为俄勒冈州立大学获得一种新的电子微探针。电子微探针的主要分析任务是产生固体材料的图像和小规模的化学分析，包括矿物、玻璃、金属、骨、陶瓷和许多其他物质。它对这些不同领域努力的最大贡献是微米级的成分和空间信息的结合。这一新仪器将取代15年前建立的一所大学设施的中心仪器，该设施旨在为大学提供分析服务，并提供与当地工业界的联系。设施管理计划的目的是在使每个人都能有效地产生高质量数据的条件下，向最广泛的人提供接触。该设施的这一方面将由波特兰州立大学(PSU)的远程操作站提供帮助。PSU的地质部将安装一个工作站和控制面板，并通过高速互联网连接到位于科瓦利斯的俄勒冈州立大学的微探测器。这个偏远的站将用于PSU的教学和研究，以及发展与波特兰地区工业界的更多联系。OSU的工作人员将负责维护电子显微探头的主要部分(安置在科瓦利斯)、更换样品和监测标准。

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.