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Image buttons

Image Windows

The NanoScope image window is described in Figure 1 and Table 1.

Figure 1: A NanoScope Image Window

Function Description
Image area The SPM image is displayed here.
Image buttons The image buttons, described below, allow pan, zoom and measurement functions.
Scan line Indicator An arrow showing the location of the current scan line.
Vertical scale The vertical scale of the image.
Horizontal scale The horizontal scale of the image.
Realtime Zoom, Offset Zooms and Offsets the scan. To Unzoom, you must change the Scan Size.
Scope window Displays a real-time plot of the channel signal.
AutoScale Automatically scales the data. Refer to AutoScale for details.
Plot controls Provides control of what is plotted in the image area.

Table 1: Image window functions

The NanoScope image buttons, shown in Figure 2, are described in Table 2. These buttons operate on the scanned data and do not affect the real-time scanning. Realtime scaning can be controled with the real-time Zoom and offset buttons, shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: NanoScope Image buttons

Button Description
Measure Allows you to draw a box to make measurements, translate the image or offset and resize the image.
Pan From a zoomed image, you can pan around to other areas of the original image.

Data zoom

Allows you to draw a box to zoom in on an image.
Resize Up Resizes the image up to the previous zoom level.
Resize Down

Resizes the image down to the previous zoom level.

Table 2: NanoScope Image buttons

Figure 3: Realtime Zoom and Offset buttons

 

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