title: ChiMS: Open-source instrument control software platform on LabVIEW for imaging/depth profiling mass spectrometers.
abstract: ChiMS is an open-source data acquisition and control software program written within LabVIEW for high speed imaging and depth profiling mass spectrometers. ChiMS can also transfer large datasets from a digitizer to computer memory at high repetition rate, save data to hard disk at high throughput, and perform high speed data processing. The data acquisition mode generally simulates a digital oscilloscope, but with peripheral devices integrated for control as well as advanced data sorting and processing capabilities. Customized user-designed experiments can be easily written based on several included templates. ChiMS is additionally well suited to non-laser based mass spectrometers imaging and various other experiments in laser physics, physical chemistry, and surface science.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA.
authors.forename: Luke
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hanley
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D003201:Computers; D020407:Internet; D007834:Lasers; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D009038:Motion; D012984:Software