mulfile

Mulfile is a Python library for reading .mul and .flm files, acquired by the scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) software "SpecsProbe.exe", which is used with the SPM 150 Aarhus by SPECS.

Installing

Installation via pip:

$ pip install mulfile

Example Usage

import mulfile as mul


# load a mul or flm file
stm_images = mul.load('path/to/mulfile.mul')

This returns all STM-images and their metadata as a list-like object. Thus, it is possible to access images by indexing and slicing.

# get the first STM-image
image_1 = stm_images[0]

# get images 1 to 5
images = stm_images[0:5]

Single STM-images are stored in objects with their image data (2D numpy array) and metadata as attributes.

# get the image data for image_1
image_1.img_data

# get the bias voltage for image_1
image_1.bias

It is also possible to save one or multiple images in the native file format of gwyddion (.gwy)

# save the complete mul-file as a gwyddion file
stm_images.save_gwy('output.gwy')

Status

STM-images, together with the corresponding metadata, are fully supported in both .mul and .flm files. Pointscans are not supported yet.