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Title: Open Source Scanning Probe Microscopy Control Software package GXSM

Journal Article · · Journal of vacuum science & technology. B, Microelectronics and nanometer structures
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1116/1.3374719· OSTI ID:1041497

GXSM is a full featured and modern scanning probe microscopy (SPM) software. It can be used for powerful multidimensional image/data processing, analysis, and visualization. Connected to an instrument, it is operating many different flavors of SPM, e.g., scanning tunneling microscopy and atomic force microscopy or, in general, two-dimensional multichannel data acquisition instruments. The GXSM core can handle different data types, e.g., integer and floating point numbers. An easily extendable plug-in architecture provides many image analysis and manipulation functions. A digital signal processor subsystem runs the feedback loop, generates the scanning signals, and acquires the data during SPM measurements. The programmable GXSM vector probe engine performs virtually any thinkable spectroscopy and manipulation task, such as scanning tunneling spectroscopy or tip formation. The GXSM software is released under the GNU general public license and can be obtained via the internet.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE SC OFFICE OF SCIENCE (SC)
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC02-98CH10886
OSTI ID:
1041497
Report Number(s):
BNL-93813-2010-JA; R&D Project: NC-001; KC020401H; TRN: US201211%%673
Journal Information:
Journal of vacuum science & technology. B, Microelectronics and nanometer structures, Vol. 28, Issue 3; ISSN 1071-1023
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English