Save Custom Analysis Format #2 (H.T.)
This menu will automatically create a custom file format (H.T. format). This format is a tab delimited ASCII file and contains extensive information including elemental, oxide, atomic weight percents, raw, background and net counts, k-ratios and one sigma calculations for several data types, stage positions, count times, and ZAF correction factors.
A separate output file is created for each unknown based on each position sample. In addition, an option is available to have each output file automatically imported into an excel spreadsheet. This file format was specified by Haldor Topsoe Ltd. and cannot be modified for other applications.
A short explanation of the various column labels used for this custom output format is given here, but note that in reality,
the symbol (El) will be replaced by the actual element symbol:
LINE Line number
El AT% Atomic weight percent
El WT% Elemental weight percent
Ox WT% Oxide weight percent
TOTAL Total weight percent
El OX/CA Oxide to cation ratio
El ONTIM On-peak counting time
El HITIM High off-peak counting time
El LOTIM Low off-peak counting time
El DETIM Deadtime correction factor
X-POS X stage position
Y-POS Y stage position
Z-POS Z stage position
RELDIST Relative distance (in microns)
El ONCNT On-peak count intensity (cps/nominal beam)
El OFCNT Off-peak count intensity (cps/nominal beam)
El NECNT Net (off-peak corrected) count intensity (cps/nominal beam)
El +-CNT One sigma standard deviation count intensity (cps/nominal beam)
El +-RAT One sigma standard deviation raw k-ratio
El Z-COR Atomic number correction factor
El A-COR Absorption correction factor
El F-COR Fluorescence correction factor
El ZAF Z*A*F correction factor
The elemental raw k-ratios and x-ray intensities are corrected for deadtime, beam current and normalized to cps in addition to background, Time Dependent Intensity (TDI), area peak factors and spectral interference corrections.