SPM software

This page is about software usable for scanning probe microscopy.

• Particular focus on open source software.
  
• Particular focus on software for intrefacing physical SPM system. See also: SPM user interfaces
  

Related

• Scanning probe microscopy
• SPM user interfaces
• SPM force feedback

External links

No claim on completeness here.

Software intrefacing physical SPM system

• https://gxsm.sourceforge.net/
  "The GXSM software is a powerful graphical interface for any kind of 2D and up to 4D (timed and multilayered 2D mode) data acquisition methods,
  but especially designed for SPM and SPA-LEED, which are used in surface science. …"
• https://sourceforge.net/p/gxsm/_members/
  GXSM Project Member List
• https://www.bnl.gov/staff/pzahl
  "For over 20 years (since year 2000) project manager and lead programmer of GXSM.
  A open source SPM (and more) control software. "

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• https://librehub.github.io/2025/04/02/marcos-penedo.html

Software for passive data processing only

• https://gwyddion.net/
  "Gwyddion is a modular program for SPM (scanning probe microscopy) data visualization and analysis.
  Primarily it is intended for the analysis of height fields obtained by scanning probe microscopy techniques
  (AFM, MFM, STM, SNOM/NSOM) and it supports a lot of SPM data formats. "
• https://github.com/scholi/pySPM
  pySPM is a Python library in order to read, handle and plot Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) images as well as ToF-SIMS data.

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• https://github.com/pycroscopy/pycroscopy
  pycroscopy is a Python package for generic (domain-agnostic) microscopy data analysis.
• https://pycroscopy.github.io/pycroscopy/about.html
• https://github.com/pycroscopy/pycroscopy
• https://pypi.org/project/pycroscopy/