MultiScan™ III Software
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Overview
- MultiScan III drives all MultiProbe™ hardware and allows users to switch between imaging and probing with unprecedented ease
| The NEW MultiScan III software is the primary control interface for MultiProbe’s AFP II nanoprober and drives all of MultiProbe's hardware configurations, old and new, with CPU cycles to spare.
It has been designed and written for ease of use and to facilitate workflow, with a colorful and intuitive interface that not only puts routine tasks such as turning on lasers, engaging heads, changing PicoCurrent gains, and even scanning at the user’s fingertips, but integrated CAD navigation functionality as well. It also provides simple one-click access to probing modes, allowing users to switch between imaging and probing with unprecedented ease. |
Optimized Features For Enhanced User Experience
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Features
- Enhanced Layout
- The layout of the main screen has been redesigned to drastically reduce tab switching when moving amongst the most common AFP scanning and probing utilities. Many configuration options are now available by simply right-clicking on various screen controls, speeding up the user experience and reducing user fatigue.
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Scanned Image Zoom - One of the most dramatic new features is the ability to “Zoom” scanned images. High-quality image interpolation techniques allow scanned images to remain clear, even when bringing the smallest of features into view.
- Adjustable Image Overlay Transparency
- Histories of adjacent images are kept in their relative positions. A user might accumulate scans of different areas that will automatically be tiled into a large picture, facilitating the building of a topographic map of a region larger than the physical scan area of a single probe tip. New Image overlay functions, relating the relative positions of the probe tips, allow the user to vary the translucency of each scanned image. When using MultiProbe’s CadNav package, this functionality dramatically improves product intuitiveness and user productivity.
- Flexible Control Interfaces
- MultiScan III allows you to detach any tab, float its controls in a new window and drag it over to a second or third monitor. This enables the user to run PicoCurrent ramps without switching tabs, or to tune the parameters of the Scanning Capacitance Module while looking at MultiScan III’s Dual View images. Additionally, now with the integration of IVC III into the MultiScan III software package, the parameter analyzer control interface can also be pulled out of its tab and placed on an auxiliary screen.
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- Intuitive and Dynamic Session Manager Interface
- MultiScan III incorporates the concept of separating the AFP heads into two groups, some of which could scan as others simultaneously probe and apply a bias to the sample. At any time, a group of heads can synchronously perform a task such as scanning or probing, and groups can be switched on the fly.
Data gathered while scanning, probing and plotting is organized into a Session Manager.
Sessions allow the user to recall and relate disparate data intuitively and effortlessly. A Session can be named by the user and all of the saved data and evaluation analysis might also be easily ported to external workstations for report generation at a later date. Instrument controls are colored and shaped in a dramatic fashion such that locating and identifying closely packed symbols becomes an intuitive and easy-to-learn user experience. The digits in numerical entries can be easily increased or decreased by simply holding the cursor over a digit and rolling the mouse wheel up or down.
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