User Fees and Services
The use and
services of the Electron Microprobe Laboratory at the University of Oklahoma
are available to all individuals associated with academic institutions, public
agencies, and private enterprise.
User Fees
Costs for usage
of the electron microprobe laboratory at the University of Oklahoma depend on
both the affiliation of the user and ultimate usage of the data obtained. We
differentiate two basic classes of users: Academic Users and Commercial/Private
Users.
Academic
Users
are defined as individuals affiliated with public or private academic
institutions, and who are addressing research problems of purely academic
interest. This does not include individuals with such affiliations that are
conducting research for personal business, or as consultants to (or
subcontracted by) privately- or publicly-owned, for-profit enterprises.
University of
Oklahoma Academic policy. The first priority of
our facility is to meet the analytical research needs of the faculty, students,
post-doctoral associates, research staff, and visiting scientists at the
Academic Users,
outside the University of Oklahoma: $60 per hour, capped at a maximum of $600
per 24-hour day
Private/Commercial
Users
are defined as all other researchers gathering data for ultimate use by private
individuals or for privately- or publicly-owned enterprises that ultimately
operate for profit. User fees depend on the nature of the service being
provided to the user:
Standard Service: involves the
detailed investigation of the structures, phase relations, and/or quantitative
(by WDS) or semi-quantitative (by EDXA) determination of the composition of
individual phases in solid materials. This service is offered to users
operating on behalf of any privately- or publicly-owned business, and is
charged at the standard rate of $175 per hour or $1750 per (contiguous) 24-hour
day.
Qualitative/Semi-Quantitative Service: is for simple
phase/material identification, and involves the simple qualitative or
semi-quantitative analysis of solids to determine approximate composition
and/or origin of a sample. This service is offered to private individuals only,
generally for the purpose of material identification (i.e., typically for
answering such questions as "what is this material?" or "could
this sample be a meteorite?"). The user is usually furnished with one or
more images of the material and one or more printouts of energy-dispersive
x-ray spectra that are crucial to its identification. The standard cost for
this service is $50 per sample that require no more than 20 minutes of on-beam
time; samples requiring longer will be charged at the Standard Service rate of
$175/hour. Samples for identification cannot be larger than 5 mm x 5 mm x 2 mm
as provided to the lab; we will not
cut identification samples from larger bulk materials.
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