Getting started

Getting started#

This is the tutorial for EasyReflectometryApp and how to use it.
Version: 1.4.0

Home page#

When opening up the EasyRecletometryApp you are presented with the Home page.

Home page

  • A: Starts your project.

  • B: Pop-up window with source information.

  • C: Link to developer documentation.

Intialise project#

Pressing A will direct you to the Project page.

Project overview

  • 1: Create a new project as a folder containing experiments and a JSON file for settings.

    • New projects need a name, description and set the save location.

  • 2: Opens a previous project from the JSON file.

  • 3: Continues to the next page, here it is Model.

    • This button is universal throughout the app and will always forward you to the next page.

If no project is selected/created a default project is initialised.
This project is used going forward to explain the app.

Save and settings#

When a project is started two further buttons is visualised, and settings is the opposite corner of those.

Save Settings

  • A: Save project.

  • B: Reset to start.

  • C: Setting, is further explained in settings.

Sample structure view#

The Model page has a Structure tab next to Reflectivity showing a schematic of the current model’s layer stack: one colored box per layer, ambient medium on top, substrate at the bottom. Boxes share a color per material (see the legend), box heights follow layer thickness, and repeated multilayers with many repetitions are drawn once with a “× N” badge.

Hover a box for its material, SLD, thickness and roughness; click it to select that layer in the sidebar editor. The view updates immediately when the model changes, including after a fit.

Note the view is a schematic, not a to-scale cross-section: heights are clamped so very thin layers stay visible and very thick ones do not crowd out the rest.

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