About Multiplexes

When you acquire a multiplex, you are acquiring a series of individual surveys on elements that you have specified. The data from these surveys is combined into a bar graph, with each bar showing the number of counts per second that have been acquired for the specific element.

To acquire a multiplex, you must tell AugerScan the elements for which you are acquiring data. If you don’t already know the elements contained on the sample, do a quick, one-sweep survey to identify the elements before you try to acquire the multiplex.

If you are acquiring an AES or XPS multiplex, AugerScan provides a default list of elements from which you select the ones you want. You can edit the existing information that AugerScan automatically provides for you, as well as add new information. Click here to see the information AugerScan needs when you define or edit existing elements.

If you are acquiring a SIMS multiplex, you must define the elements. Click here to see the information that AugerScan needs to acquire SIMS depth profiles. Note: The elements that you define for a SIMS multiplex are available to all SIMS acquisitions.

You can view all the regions for a multiplex at the same time. You can also scroll through the cycles for each region. Click here for more information.

AugerScan also provides a command to open each multiplex survey region in an individual window at once. Additionally, you may set a view option to display acquired data in a window dedicated to a particular region (instead of showing the acquisition in all region windows).

For information on acquiring multiplexes as they pertain to a specific technique, click on the one of the items below:

AES Multiplexes

SIMS Multiplexes

XPS Multiplexes