Scanbot is a collection of several automated STM and nc-AFM data acquisition commands compatible with Nanonis V5 and V5e SPM control software (stable with R12280 and later).
Full documentation available here.
- STM
- Bias dependent imaging with drift correction
- Automated sample surveying (NxN grid)
- STS
- STS Grids with drift correction
- nc-AFM (coming soon in the web app version)
- z-dependent nc-AFM
- nc-AFM registration
- Automation
- Tip shaping
- Full control over the course motors
- Hooks
- Scanbot has a number of built-in hooks to let you customise key functionality.
On Windows, you can download and run the Scanbot executable.
Alternatively, Scanbot can be installed with pip:
pip install scanbot
To launch Scanbot as a web application, run:
scanbot
It should automatically open and run in a new browser tab. If it doesn't, head to http://127.0.0.1:5000.
You can launch Scanbot in a console mode with the -c option:
scanbot -c
In console mode, run help to see a full list of commands. To get help with a specific command, run help <command name>
For more details, refer to the documentation
If you wish to contribute to Scanbot in any way, please refer to these guidleines.
Ceddia, J., Hellerstedt, J., Lowe, B., & Schiffrin, A. (2024). Scanbot: An STM Automation Bot. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(99), 6028. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06028
@article{Ceddia_Scanbot_An_STM_2024,
author = {Ceddia, Julian and Hellerstedt, Jack and Lowe, Benjamin and Schiffrin, Agustin},
doi = {10.21105/joss.06028},
journal = {Journal of Open Source Software},
month = jul,
number = {99},
pages = {6028},
title = {{Scanbot: An STM Automation Bot}},
url = {https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.06028},
volume = {9},
year = {2024}
}
Special thanks to FLEET for their contribution through the FLEET Translation Program.