Gun Properties

Displays the Electron/Ion Gun Properties dialog box. This dialog box contains three pages (one for each acquisition technique), each of which is accessed by clicking on the corresponding tab in the dialog box.

The settings in this dialog box define the settings for the ion gun (for all acquisition techniques), the electron gun (for AES and SIMS only), and the neutralizer gun (for all acquisition techniques). Some settings are used by the ion gun, neutralizer, and electron gun, while some settings are for record-keeping purposes only. Carefully review the What’s This Help for each field to determine which values are used and which ones aren’t used by the system.

If you have a digital ion gun control or neutralizer control, some of these settings will be automatically recorded for you.

If you are using a ion gun controlled via the PHI EIA-485 interface, you must set the gun parameters via the PHI software. However, on/off control for timed sputter is still supported via AugerScan.

If you have AugerMap 2 and an digital electron gun control, the electron gun settings will be recorded for you.

You can choose to export your gun properties in your ASCII file headers in the Acquisition / Options dialog.

You can choose to print your gun properties Page Setup dialog.