Documentation for pynxtools-ellips

pynxtools-ellips is a free and open-source data software for harmonizing ellipsometry data and metadata for research data management using NeXus, implemented with the goal to make scientific research data FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable).

pynxtools-ellips, which is a plugin for pynxtools, provides a tool for reading data from (currently Woollam VASE) proprietary and open data formats from technology partners and the wider ellipsometry community. The tool standardizes these data such that it is compliant with the NeXus application definitions NXoptical_spectroscopy and its extension NXellipsometry. pynxtools-ellips is developed both as a standalone reader and as a tool within NOMAD, which is the open-source data management platform for materials science we are developing with FAIRmat.

pynxtools-ellips solves the challenge of using heterogeneous and unfindable data formats which is common in the field of ellipsometry.

pynxtools-ellips is useful for scientists from the ellipsometry community that deal with heterogeneous data, for technology partners and data providers looking for ways to make their data FAIRer, and for research groups that want to organize their data using NeXus and NOMAD.

Tutorial

• Installation guide

How-to guides

Coming soon!

Learn

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Reference

Here you can learn which specific measurement setups and file formats from technology partners pynxtools-ellips currently supports.

• Woollam VASE

Contact

For questions or suggestions:

• Open an issue on the pynxtools-ellips GitHub
• Join our Discord channel
• Get in contact with our lead developers.

Project and community

The work is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - 460197019 (FAIRmat).