Thesis-PDF - IAP/TU Wien

Annex 1
This Igor script was used in order to remove image artifacts from acquired image
data as described in 5.2.3 under AFM Software and Fig. 5.5 (page 70 and 72
respectively).
#pragma rtGlobals = 1 // Use modern global access method.
menu "AFM_TUVIENNA" // add new entry into menu.
"TraceRetrace Calculations... " , NewLayer()
end
function LateralTR (w) // function to add a new layer to an existing afm data wave
Wave w
Variable laynr
end
laynr = DimSize(w, 2) //number of layers
Redimension/N=(-1,-1,laynr+1) w // create a new layer
w[][][laynr] = w[p][q][laynr -2] - w[p][q][laynr -1]
// calculate the lateral T - R signal
// change LayerLabel so that the MFP-3D extension displays the new layer
SetDimLabel 2, laynr, UserIn0Trace, w
function min_htthtr (w) // function joining height trace and retrace
Wave w
Variable laynr
end
laynr = DimSize(w, 2) // get the number of layers
Redimension/N=(-1,-1,laynr+1) w // create a new layer
w[][][laynr]=min(w[p][q][0],w[p][q][1])
// change LayerLabel so that the MFP-3D extension displays the new layer
SetDimLabel 2, laynr, UserIn1Trace, w
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