AZtecGeo is a geoscience dedicated user profile for particle analysis software AZtecFeature. Its aim is to guide the collection of high-quality data and assist with translating elemental information into mineralogy, reducing the user requirement for building classification schemes.
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✓ Detectors: compatible with all Oxford Instruments EDS detectors, including legacy models. No detector upgrade required.
! Base software: requires AZtecFeature to be purchased, installed and licensed first. AZtecGeo is an application module that runs inside AZtecFeature.
! Software: requires AZtec 6.2 or later already installed on your acquisition PC. Check your version and how to update.
✓ Microscope: any SEM or FIB-SEM running AZtec. Automated stage control is needed for large-area runs.
Only one license can be generated per order.
Once you have purchased AZtecGeo you will receive the product key in an email notification from no-reply@estore.oxinst.com or noreply.NA.softwarelicensing@sentinelcloud.com, which will also include instructions on how to activate the licence.
Please read this document for more on how to activate your licence.
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AZtecGeo is an application module for AZtecFeature. It is not a standalone product. You must already own and have installed AZtecFeature on your acquisition PC. Because AZtecGeo runs inside AZtecFeature, it inherits the same hardware compatibility: it works with every Oxford Instruments EDS detector and with any SEM or FIB-SEM that already runs AZtec.
Optimising automated EDS analysis and building elaborate mineral classification schemes can be significant time-sinks. AZtecGeo empowers geoscientists with the required tools and guidance to perform high-quality, large area, compositional and textural analysis. A pre-made classification scheme rapidly translates chemical information into usable mineralogical data.
• Built-in mineral classification scheme offering more than 200 common rock forming minerals: silicates, oxides, sulphides, sulphates, carbonates and phosphates
• Acquisition settings tailored for geological materials: image dwell time and resolution, EDS process time, counting statistics
• Step notes that guide the acquisition of high-quality data, adapted for geological materials and workflows
• Hydrous and carbonaceous mineral classes adjusted to suit normalised EDS data where C and H are not quantified
• A BSE image is acquired and greyscale thresholds segment the phases within the image
• Each phase that satisfies the threshold is sequentially analysed by EDS
• Quantified EDS spectra are filtered through a series of classes, assigned to a mineral class (e.g. oxide) then automatically filtered into a subclass (e.g. ilmenite)
• Users can edit elemental ranges, generate new mineral classifications and add morphological criteria such as aspect ratio
• Particles broken by field boundaries are reconstructed for full morphological and chemical characterisation
• Leading spectrum processing with Tru-Q and Tru-Q IQ
• Specify a minimum number of spectrum counts per feature for guaranteed data quality
• Automatic compensation for changes to image contrast and brightness during a run
• Run completion summary with validation reports on SEM beam stability and EDS detector resolution
• Modal mineralogy, mineral mapping, particle classification and size distribution, histogram, binary and ternary displays
• Batch export of all particles, or of data from specific classes and subclasses
Geology, petrology and mining, ore and rock characterisation, thin section analysis, and any workflow that would otherwise require laborious manual optical mineralogy.
Target phases identified in AZtecGeo can be relocated and investigated further using integrated EBSD, WDS, Raman and BEX detectors, without leaving the software.
For the complete product detail, application notes and publications, see: AZtecGeo on nano.oxinst.com.
COMPATIBILITY:
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Required Base Software |
AZtecFeature (required). AZtecGeo is a licensed application module and will not run without an active AZtecFeature licence on the same PC |
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Minimum AZtec version |
AZtec 6.2 |
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EDS Detectors |
All Oxford Instruments EDS detectors: Ultim Max, Ultim Extreme, Xplore, and legacy X-Max / X-Act |
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Multiple Detectors |
Up to four in parallel, 680 mm² total active area
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| Microscopes |
Any SEM or FIB-SEM running AZtec. Automated stage control required for large-area acquisition |
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Operating System |
Windows 10/11 64-bit |
CAPIBILITY & LICENSING:
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Mineral Classification Screen |
Built-in scheme covering more than 200 rock forming minerals; fully editable |
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Additional Techniques |
Relocate and re-analyse target phases with EBSD, WDS, Raman and BEX
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Max Particles Per Sample |
200,000 across thousands of fields of view |
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Peak Throughput |
In excess of 120,000 particles per hour (hardware dependent)
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Quantification |
Tru-Q / Tru-Q IQ with pulse pile-up correction; TruMap peak deconvolution |
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Data Export |
Reports to Microsoft Word; data export to Microsoft Excel; H5OINA format |
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License Type |
Permanent License. Periodic updates available through OI View Portal |
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Licenses per order |
One. Dongle locked to the acquisition PC. |
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