Acquiring an AES Survey

To find out more about surveys, click here .

IMPORTANT: Click here if this is the first time you are acquiring a survey.

  1. Make sure that AES is selected as the acquisition technique.

  2. Set the AES elastic peak if you have changed or moved the sample. Click here to see the procedure for acquiring an elastic peak.

  3. If you are using an analog multiplier supply such as the model 20-075, you must re-set the multiplier voltage before acquiring a survey. Click here to see the procedure.
    (If you are using a digital multiplier supply such as the model 32-100, we recommend that you re-check the multiplier plateau voltage on a monthly basis because as a multiplier ages, it requires a higher voltage to produce the same amount of signal. Click here to view the procedure for acquiring the multiplier gain curve to determine the multiplier plateau voltage.)

  4. Select the New Survey command from the Acquire menu or click on the New Survey button in the main toolbar. The Survey Settings dialog box is displayed.

  5. Define the acquisition settings in the Survey Settings dialog box. Use the What’s This Help to determine the appropriate values for each field.

  6. Click on the Acquire command button to begin acquiring the survey.

Once you’ve acquired the survey, you can continue working with the data, thereby “transforming” it. This includes smoothing, differentiating, tracking and marking, annotating, and calculating atomic concentrations. Click here for more information about raw and transformed data. We recommend that you save your data before you transform it in any way because some operations result in permanent changes to the data that cannot be undone.

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