Abstract
In the last decades scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy have become well-established tools in nanotechnology and surface science. This opened the market for many commercial manufacturers, each with different hardware and software standards. Besides the advantage of a wide variety of available hardware, the diversity may software-wise complicate the data exchange between scientists, and the data analysis for groups working with hardware developed by different manufacturers. Not only the file format differs between manufacturers, but also the data often requires further numerical treatment before publication. SpectraFox is an open-source and independent tool which manages, processes, and evaluates scanning probe spectroscopy and microscopy data. It aims at simplifying the documentation in parallel to measurement, and it provides solid evaluation tools for a large number of data.
Highlights
In the last decades scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy have become well-established tools in nanotechnology and surface science. This opened the market for many commercial manufacturers, each with different hardware and software standards
Besides the advantage of a wide variety of available hardware, the diversity may software-wise complicate the data exchange between scientists, and the data analysis for groups working with hardware developed by different manufacturers
In scanning probe spectroscopy (SPS) the output is a one-dimensional trace of values, which is recorded at a single spatial location, where the reaction of the sample is measured on the variation of a junction parameter
Summary
Scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy has become one of the key technologies in modern surface science. In scanning probe spectroscopy (SPS) the output is a one-dimensional trace of values, which is recorded at a single spatial location, where the reaction of the sample is measured on the variation of a junction parameter. Many independent research laboratories and manufacturers have improved SPM and SPS in the last decades This includes the construction of different data acquisition systems, of which most of them use a proprietary file format to store their data. SpectraFox is a free, independent, and open-source data management and analysis tool, which closes this gap, and puts a focus on the handling of spectroscopy files. SpectraFox provides tools for elaborated data analysis and evaluation It includes many features, such as simple numerical data treatments applicable to a whole batch of files, or more complex features, such as non-linear least square fitting, and advanced visualization techniques. We demonstrate its capabilities in a real world example, where we show the evaluation of a set of physical data recorded with a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope under ultra-high vacuum conditions
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