Scanbot is a collection of several automated STM and nc-AFM data acquisition commands compatible with Nanonis V5 and V5e SPM control software (stable with R12280 and later).

Full documentation available here.

• STM
  • Bias dependent imaging with drift correction
  • Automated sample surveying (NxN grid)
• STS
  • STS Grids with drift correction
• nc-AFM (coming soon in the web app version)
  • z-dependent nc-AFM
  • nc-AFM registration
• Automation
  • Tip shaping
  • Full control over the course motors
• Hooks
  • Scanbot has a number of built-in hooks to let you customise key functionality.

On Windows, you can download and run the Scanbot executable.

Alternatively, Scanbot can be installed with pip:

pip install scanbot

To launch Scanbot as a web application, run:

scanbot

It should automatically open and run in a new browser tab. If it doesn't, head to http:https://127.0.0.1:5000.

You can launch Scanbot in a console mode with the -c option:

scanbot -c

In console mode, run help to see a full list of commands. To get help with a specific command, run help <command name>

For more details, refer to the documentation

If you wish to contribute to Scanbot in any way, please refer to these guidleines.

If you use Scanbot in your scientific research, please consider citing it.

Special thanks to FLEET for their contribution through the FLEET Translation Program.