SANDIA-TASK '78: an electron microprobe automation program

Technical Report · Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1978

OSTI ID:6633856

Chambers, W F

Sandia TASK '78, written in Flextran and based on Tracor-Northern's Task-3, is an electron microprobe automation program which provides a set of user-oriented commands for instrument control. The commands are broken into five groups: general purpose, wavelength dispersive control, energy dispersive control, correction and external program linkage, and schedule execution. By using the commands, it is possible to control beam current and position, stage position, spectrometer positions and crystal selections, detector voltages, pulse height analyzer windows, and the camera system. When used in conjunction with a schedule, TASK '78 can perform simultaneous quantitative data collection, reduction and statistical evaluation. As provided, TASK '78 is configured for a Cameca MBX; however, it may easily be adapted to any instrument utilizing a Tracor 1310 automation package.

• Research Organization: Sandia Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-04-0789
• OSTI ID: 6633856
• Report Number(s): SAND-78-1149
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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