Scanning 

About: Scanning is an academic journal published by Wiley. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Scanning electron microscope & Medicine. It has an ISSN identifier of 0161-0457. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 2149 publications have been published receiving 35865 citations.

CASINO V2.42: a fast and easy-to-use modeling tool for scanning electron microscopy and microanalysis users.

Abstract: Monte Carlo simulations have been widely used by microscopists for the last few decades. In the beginning it was a tedious and slow process, requiring a high level of computer skills from users and long computational times. Recent progress in the microelectronics industry now provides researchers with affordable desktop computers with clock rates greater than 3 GHz. With this type of computing power routinely available, Monte Carlo simulation is no longer an exclusive or long (overnight) process. The aim of this paper is to present a new user-friendly simulation program based on the earlier CASINO Monte Carlo program. The intent of this software is to assist scanning electron microscope users in interpretation of imaging and microanalysis and also with more advanced procedures including electron-beam lithography. This version uses a new architecture that provides results twice as quickly. This program is freely available to the scientific community and can be downloaded from the website: (www.gel.usherb.ca/casino).

INTLAB - INTerval LABoratory.

Abstract: INTLAB is a toolbox for Matlab supporting real and complex intervals, and vectors, full matrices and sparse matrices over those. It is designed to be very fast. In fact, it is not much slower than the fastest pure floating point algorithms using the fastest compilers available (the latter, of course, without verification of the result). Beside the basic arithmetical operations, rigorous input and output, rigorous standard functions, gradients, slopes and multiple precision arithmetic is included in INTLAB. Portability is assured by implementing all algorithms in Matlab itself with exception of exactly one routine for switching the rounding downwards, upwards and to nearest. Timing comparisons show that the used concept achieves the anticipated speed with identical code on a variety of computers, ranging from PC’s to parallel computers. INTLAB is freeware and may be copied from our home page.

CASINO: A new monte carlo code in C language for electron beam interaction —part I: Description of the program

Abstract: This paper is a guide to the ANSI standard C code of CASINO program which is a single scattering Monte CArlo SImulation of electroN trajectory in sOlid specially designed for low-beam interaction in a bulk and thin foil. CASINO can be used either on a DOS-based PC or on a UNIX-based workstation. This program uses tabulated Mott elastic cross sections and experimentally determined stopping powers. Function pointers are used for the most essential routine so that different physical models can easily be implemented. CASINO can be used to generate all of the recorded signals (x-rays, secondary, and backscattered) in a scanning electron microscope either as a point analysis, as a linescan, or as an image format, for all the accelerated voltages (0.1–30 kV). As an example of application, it was found that a 20 nm Guinier-Preston Mg2Si in a light aluminum matrix can, theoretically, be imaged with a microchannel backscattered detector at 5 keV with a beam spot size of 5 nm.