Other Facilities:
- International Research Group on Ostracoda (IRGO) - Dr. Rosalie F. Maddocks
- Students and faculty in the Department of Geosciences can use the equipment at the Texas Center
for Superconductivity at the University of Houston
(TCSUH)
, an institute with the university drawing on the physics, chemistry, and
engineering faculty. Equipment of interests to geoscientists include:
- A Jeol 8600 Superprobe electron microprobe
- This is a four (4) WDS spectrometer electron microprobe, fully automated with Tracor Northern automation system, equipped with Kevex EDAX detector for EDS analysis.
- Light element crystals are available for analysis of B, C, N, and O.
- This instrument is used for a wide variety of analyses ranging from mineral analysis to back-scatter imaging of superconducting thin film samples.
- A large number of mineral and synthetic standards are available.
- A Jeol 2000 FX transmission electron microscope
- This TEM has a resolution of 2.8 angstroms, with a minimum probe beam of 20 angstroms.
- The instrument is equipped with both high angle EDS and horizontal EDS detectors, and is capable of convergent beam diffraction
- A Seimens D5000 x-ray diffractometer with open Eulerian cradle
- This XRD features full PC computer automation, data collection, and data processing.
- The instrument is equipped with a Cu tube, graphite monochromator, and incident beam Soller slits.
- An ope Eulerian cradle is installed and allows measurement of sample texture and collection of pole figures.
- A Jeol 8600 Superprobe electron microprobe
