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. 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 University of
Oklahoma. In deference both to this priority and to direct support of our
facility by the OU Office of the Vice Present for Research, users from within
the University of Oklahoma system are charged at a lower rate than academic
users from other institutions.
User
Fees:
Academic
Users, University of Oklahoma system: $20 per hour, or $200 per 24-hour day
Academic
Users, outside the University of Oklahoma: $40 per hour, or $400 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 $100 per hour or $1000 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 only offered to private individuals,
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 $35 per sample.
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