Upgrade of the Duke University Electron Microprobe

杜克大学地球与海洋科学系的CAMECA camamebax微探针主要由杜克大学和北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的研究小组使用。该合同将允许对该仪器的计算机和EDS/成像电子设备以及相关软件进行升级。此次升级将使我们能够继续通过电子探针为杜克大学和北卡罗来纳大学的地球和材料科学提供可靠的、非破坏性的原位化学微分析。此外，它将提高我们获取大面积元素组成图的能力。升级后的区域设施将是一种经济有效的方法，以支持杜克大学和北卡罗来纳大学以及北卡罗来纳其他学院和大学的广泛研究兴趣。它还将允许本科生和研究生继续教授现代电子微束技术。

The Duke University CAMECA CAMEBAX microprobe in the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences is used largely by research groups at both Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This award will permit an upgrade to the computer and EDS/imaging electronics and associated software for the instrument. The upgrade will allow us to continue to offer reliable, non-destructive, in situ chemical microanalysis by electron microprobe for the earth and materials sciences at Duke and UNC. In addition, it will improve our ability to acquire large area element composition maps. The upgraded regional facility will be a cost-effective method to support a wide range of research interest at Duke and the University of North Carolina, as well as other colleges and universities in North Carolina. It will also allow continued teaching of both undergraduate and graduate students in modern electron microbeam techniques.