Paper EW-WeL2
State-Of-The-Art Software and Surface Analysis at Thermo Fisher Scientific

Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 1:00 pm, Room Exhibit Hall

State-of-the-art XPS instruments require state-of-the-art software for system control and data processing. If the software is not easy to use whilst at the same time being powerful and flexible, then the high performance offered by the hardware may not be realised in everyday usage. Additionally, the increased sample throughput afforded by high sensitivity data acquisition can be compromised if time is then wasted during data processing or reporting. Thermo Scientific’s Avantage software combines advanced XPS instrument control and data processing, creating an integrated workflow from data acquisition to data reporting. The high level of integration between instrument control and data processing offered by Avantage allows recipes to be created which automate both the acquisition and processing of XPS data. Avantage recipes can be programmed with the knowledge and experience of an expert user, allowing repetitive, but complex, tasks to be fully software controlled. Workflows with advanced data acquisition and peak fitting protocols, for example, can be created which automatically reduce vast XPS datasets to a set of pass-fail parameters. These expertly crafted recipes can be used by both novice and advanced users. Avantage features a wide variety of data processing tools which enable the user to move from raw XPS data to useful real-world parameters quickly and easily.