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Mean Free Path Estimator
Function
Computes the mean free path using the mean atomic number or average density.
Version
version:20120930, v2.0
Author
D. R. G. Mitchell
Acknowledgements

Some sections of code for this script were based on Bernhard Schaffer's EELS-Edges-Chart script. Lists of elemental data are from W Grogger (FELMI). Thanks also to K. Iakoubovskii for the provision of experimental EELS data against which to test this script.

Comments

This script is based on papers by Malis et al., J. Electron Microsc. Tech. vol. 8 (1988) p193. and Iakoubovskii et al., Microscopy Research and Technique, vol. 71 (2008) p626.

This script is also included in the EELSTools package of scripts, available from this site.

System Requirements
This dialog-based script requires GMS 1.8x and later and GMS 2.x. It may run on versions of GMS as early as 1.6 but this has not been tested. This release has been updated to fix bugs arising from scripting changes introduced in GMS 2.x.
Known Issues
Supported
Yes
Included Files
Main script file.
Source Code
Available in the downloaded script.