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I O N                        Friday, 8 May 1998         Vol. 98 : Num. 004

N.Barradas@surrey.ac.uk (Nuno P Barradas): IBA DataFurnace v2.1

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From: N.Barradas@surrey.ac.uk (Nuno P Barradas)
Date: Thu, 7 May 98 10:31 BST
Subject: N.Barradas@surrey.ac.uk (Nuno P Barradas): IBA DataFurnace v2.1

The University of Surrey Ion Beam Centre is releasing version 2.1 of the IBA
DataFurnace. This new software has been extended to ERDA data, and can now
handle multiple spectra of the same sample self-consistently. These spectra
can be any combination of RBS, ERDA, different beams, different beam
energies, or different geometries. Plural scattering corrections can be
introduced. Non-Rutherford cross-sections can be input by the user. The
program uses the Simulated Annealing global optimisation algorithm, and is
fully automatic, with no input from the user except for the data and the
experimental conditions.

Version 1.0 (single spectrum He RBS only, demonstrated at IBA13 and ECAART5,
announced in ION  Friday, 31 October 1997  Vol. 97 : Num. 007) is now freely
available for test and evaluation purposes. Version 2.1 is available subject
to agreement. More details can be found in the DataFurnace web site:

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Research/SCRIBA/ndf/


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