Update July 22, 2019
We have developed an open source thin film program, Badger Film. We are in the process of making final changes before release, which we hope will be at M&M Portland, Oregon in early August 2019.
We undertook the creation of a modern thin film analysis program, inspired by GMRFilm, with a simple graphical user interface. The program implements the PAP phi-rho-Z model, as well as a fitting algorithm to determine film composition and thickness. The input data provided by the user are the elements present in the different layers of the studied system, plus at least one set of k-ratios for the thin film. The program calculates theoretical k-ratios and tries to match them with the experimental data by modifying the compositions and thicknesses of the studied system.Abstract of the talk given at the MAS Quantitative Microanalysis Topical Workshop at the University of Minnesota in June 2019.
Director of SEM and EPMA labs: John Fournelle Dept of Geoscience University of Wisconsin-Madison 1215 W. Dayton St Madison, WI 53706 (608) 438-7480 johnf*at*geology.wisc.edu