Spincounting Toolbox

A MatLab toolbox for quantitative EPR.

Overview

This MatLab toolbox is designed to facilitate and automate the evaluation of quantitative EPR data.

System Requirements

• MatLab 2013b or later
• Optimisation Toolbox (only when using the lorentz and gauss model for resonator dip fitting)
• easyspin (only for loading Bruker BES3T and Magnetec XML files).

Releases & Download

• Latest stable release: v3.0.1 (Download)
• Development version: Download

Older releases can be found on the releases page.

Installation & first steps

Add the spincounting folder to your MatLab search path. Read and follow documentation/INSTALL. The toolbox is invoked by typing spincounting on the MatLab command line.

Upgrading from v2.x.x

Version 3.0.0 of spincounting introduced machine files and various changes to scconfig as well as the output format. To migrate your configuration from v2.x.x to 3.x.x, you should, after updating

1. copy your scconfig.m to scconfig.m.backup
2. copy documentation/templates/scconfig.m.template to private/scconfig
3. copy the options you set in the DEFAULTS variable in scconfig.m.backup to either DEFAULT_OPTIONS in scconfig.m or MACHINE_PARAMETERS in a machine file, as applicable.
4. If you used any self-written load routines, copy them from scconfig.m.backup to scconfig.m. Note that the new scconfig.m uses a single variable <TUNE|SPECTRUM>_FORMATS instead of the old <TUNE|SPECTRUM>_KNOWN_FORMATS and <TUNE|SPECTRUM>_LOADFUNCTIONS.

Additionally, v3.x.x no longer returns [nspins, tfactor, outstr], but [out, outstr], where out contains nspins, tfactor or nspinerror depending on the operation mode. All values are still saved individually to the struct output outstr, but the structure of outstr has changed as well. You will need to edit your scripts accordingly.

Support or Contact

Having trouble? Questions? Requests? Contact me and I’ll try to help you sort it out.

Author: Christopher Engelhard

Mail: christopher.engelhard [at] fu-berlin.de