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Data from Scienta Omicron instruments

The reader supports data exported from Scienta Omicron instruments in three formats: plain text (.txt), Igor Binary Wave Format (.ibw), and HDF5 (.h5 / .hdf5).

The parser is in src/pynxtools_xps/parsers/scienta/.

Supported versions

Format Extension Software Supported versions
Scienta plain text export .txt SES / Scienta software any
Igor Binary Wave .ibw WaveMetrics Igor Pro any
HDF5 .h5, .hdf5 Scienta / PEAK software any

.txt data

Example data is available in the examples/scienta/txt/ directory.

user@box:~$ dataconverter Cu-HHTP_*.txt eln_data_scienta_txt.yaml --reader xps --nxdl NXxps --output Cu-HHTP.txt.nxs

.ibw data

Example data is available in the examples/scienta/ibw/ directory.

user@box:~$ dataconverter Cu-HHTP_*.ibw eln_data_scienta_ibw.yaml --reader xps --nxdl NXxps --output Cu-HHTP.ibw.nxs

.h5 / .hdf5 data

HDF5 files written by Scienta or PEAK software are supported via extensions .h5 and .hdf5.

user@box:~$ dataconverter measurement.h5 eln_data_scienta_hdf5.yaml --reader xps --nxdl NXxps --output measurement.h5.nxs

Acknowledgements

We thank Dr. Alexei Nefedov from KIT for providing the example IBW and TXT data sets.

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