About Marking Data

You can mark AES and SIMS survey data and make annotations in all AugerScan documents in AugerScan. (For those of you familiar with previous versions of AugerScan, “text labels” are now called “annotations”.) You can also mark XPS data.

When you mark AES and SIMS survey data, you identify the peaks in an AES or SIMS survey. When you select the Mark/Track command from the Edit menu, a vertical bar is displayed in the AugerScan document. As you move the mouse pointer across the AugerScan document, the bar moves as well. The intersection of the bar and the survey indicates the location of the marker. The elements that you can select from when you mark data are controlled by two items: the elements in the Element table and the range you define in the Data Transformation and Analysis Options dialog box (which is displayed when you select the Options command from the Data menu). You may change either of these items. (Note: If you change the definition of an element in the Element table for marking purposes, you could unintentionally and adversely affect the data for your AES depth profiles and multiplexes.) The font used to display and print markers is the same font used to identify the graph axis labels (defined in the Fonts tab in the View Options dialog box).

When you mark XPS data, you select endpoints in an XPS acquisition. When you select endpoints, you are defining the baseline for the data so that you can calculate atomic concentrations. You can select endpoints for surveys, for the individual regions and cycles in depth profiles, and for the individual surveys that compose multiplexes.

Additionally, you can select endpoints for an AES multiplex or depth profile region, allowing you to mark the upper and lower limits for atomic concentration calculations

Click here to see the procedure for marking AES and SIMS survey data. Click here to see the procedure for selecting endpoints for XPS data or AES multiplexes and depth profiles.

You can remove one or all of the markers or endpoints that you have defined, load and save marker lists, and flag markers for inclusion in atomic concentration calculations. Simply select either Markers or Endpoints from the Edit menu and use the What’s This Help for the displayed dialog box.

Note that by default, Argon is excluded from the atomic concentration calculation.