STRATALine is a useful tool for automatic thin film analysis. This is an optional package to XMAS or IDFix, and does require STRATAGem to be installed on the system. This optional package also includes the use of STRATAGem directly from XMAS or IDFix when the coating option is enabled.

STRATALine : Automatic thickness & composition

STRATALine user interface allows the user to select an analysis file (*.ana) and a Thin film file (*.tff) as shown below:

The analysis file contains a series of analyses (Ix/Istd); the thin film file contains the structure of the sample (number of layers, elements in each layer/substrate). The purpose of STRATALine is then to generate an EXCEL file, which will contain for each analysis point the results of the STRATAGem iteration. The plot below shows and EXCEL graph once the program has calculated the thickness on all points.