Various types of equipment are available
for meteorite research at PSU. This includes petrographic microscopes and remote access to the Cameca SX100 electron microprobe
at Oregon State University.
Much used by lab personnel is a Zeiss Sigma SEM with EDS and EBSD capability. This SEM
and other equipment is available at the Center
for Electron Microscopy and Nanofabrication (see CEMN for details) at
PSU.
Meteorite researchers at PSU also use the
laser-ablation inductively-coupled-plasma mass spectrometer (LA-ICPMS)
at the W.M. Keck Collaboratory for Plasma Spectrometry at Oregon State
University for in situ analyses of trace elements.
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Prof. Melinda Hutson uses a petrographic
microscope to study a meteorite thin section.
Prof. Rick Hugo at the Zeiss Sigma
SEM,
overseeing installation of the new EBSD unit
(behind technician) in
late 2012.
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