The flexible and modern open source scanning probe microscopy software package GXSM

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 74, Issue 3 I, 2003, Pages 1222-1227

  Zahl, Percy ^a   Bierkandt, Markus ^b   Schröder, Stefan ^b   Klust, Andreas ^c  

^a NSF Engineering Research Center for Reinventing the Nation s Urban Water Infrastructure   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNET; SCANNING; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY (SPM);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0037350179     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1540718     Document Type: Review

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