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EMAL News Volume 1 (Friday, February 11th, 2000)

New Electron Microprobe Analyzer for the CC EMAL

Cameca SX100 Universal EPMA JEOL JXA-8900 Superprobe

Eric Essene of Geological Sciences and one of the Associate Directors of the laboratory has recently secured funding from the National Science Foundation to purchase a new Electron Microprobe Analyzer. He and Carl Henderson are going to visit the major manufacturers soon to test out their offerings. The major contenders are probably the JXA-8900 Superprobe from JEOL of Akashima, Japan and the SX100 Universal EPMA from Cameca of Courbevoie, France. Send mail to Eric or Carl for the latest information.

New computer system on the
PHI 5400 XPS in the NC EMAL
A Dell Pentium III desktop computer,running Windows NT, has replaced the Perkin Elmer computer for data acqusition, instrument control and data processing on the NC EMAL XPS system. The interface electronics and hardware for this upgrade is manufactured by RBD Enterprises of Bend, Oregon. Updated computer system on the
PHI 600 SAM in the NC EMAL
A Dell Pentium desktop computer, running Windows 95 has replaced the Dell 486 computer for data acqusition, instrument control and data processing on the NC EMAL Auger system. The interface electronics and hardware for this computer control system is manufactured by RBD Enterprises of Bend, Oregon.

New JEOL 2010F Analytical Electron Microscope for the NC EMAL

Watch the installation on the WebCam!

The North Campus EMAL has purchased a new JEOL AEM to replace the aging 2000FX. The microscope has been shipped from the factory in Akasima, Japan and has arrived in the USA. It was delivered to New York on the 3rd of Janurary 2000 and was stored in a Customs warehouse pending the unravelling of some problems involving Customs documents (if you want something done right, do it yourself). On the 9th of February 2000, the Customs Clearance documents were delivered to John Mansfield who immediately forwarded them on to JEOL, Boston. The instrument should take about 1 week to clear customs and between three and four days to travel to Ann Arbor.

The JEOL 2000FX will be decommissioned beginning on the 14th of February 2000 and it will be unavailable from that day. This make room for the new instrument and allow the room to be prepared.

Currently the scheduled date of arrival of the new scope is 29th February 2000.

Watch the secommissioning of the 2000 and the installation of the new scope on our new WebCam.

When the installation is complete then each user will need to be trained on the use of the new instrument. One-on-one and group training sessions will be available depending upon the individual users application.