JEOL JXA-8530F Electron Microprobe

The JEOL was delivered in March 2013, it is the workhorse of the lab. It would make a fabulous SEM because of its field emission electron source, but of course has rather limited stage movement because of its main mission which is x-ray analysis. To that end, it has five WDS spectrometers, all with large area crystals. It also has a Thermo Noran System 7 SDD-EDS system. Control is through JEOL, Probe for EPMA, or Thermo-NSS software depending on the need. Finally, it has a cathodoluminescence (CL) detector which can accommodate a variety of filters for specific wavelength detection. Acquisition of the instrument was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number 1126898. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Contact Ken Severin for details.