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Major ergonomic revisions and software improvements
This new version brings
lots of improvements and new tools for a more friendly use.
To introduce this version we can summarize all improvements into four
categories:
- New graphic window
- Ergonomic improvements
- Creation of a new Analysis menu
- New techniques
- Technique modifications
- Support for USB as an alternative to Ethernet for all new instruments
The aim of the new software version is to make with EC-LabŪ a very easy-to-use
software. Improvements were done to simplify the way to build and run an
experiment. The old graph tool in EC-LabŪ software (before V9) was limited. It
was not efficient enough to add new analysis tools and fits and for an easy
configuration of graphic parameters. In EC-LabŪ V9 a more powerful graph has
replaced the old one. This graph includes necessary tools for powerful data
analysis and many options and parameters to adjust. Moreover the parameter
windows display has been modified for an easiest use of linked techniques and
for a more homogeneous display, especially the linked technique tab has been
removed and inserted in the parameter settings tab. The number of tabs is
reduced from 4 to 3. The technique selection window has been completely changed
and the processes simplified to avoid fastidious operations with data files. Instruments
that will be shortly released are recognized in EC-LabŪ software.
1- New graphic window
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- New graph with more options (graph properties)
- Add a graphic window mouse right click
- New mouse modes with a local zoom in and out and a zoom back option
- Possibility to hide and show selected points before a fit
- New copy options (graph as a picture, plotted data as text)
- Selection of the active trace by the legend or by the trace
- Add two new graph tools: Min Max and Peak Analysis
- Remove the button panels
- New printing properties
- Graph properties: axes (processing), traces, legend and possibility to add
a title
- Possibility to add up to 4 graphs in the same active graphic window with
ability to do fits on all graphs separately.
- New fit windows with a copy option
- Active markers delimiting fits and movable with the mouse
- Automatic recalculation of the fit results when a marker is moved.
- Possibility to display E(I) and E(<I>) on the graph.
- User's graphic selections are now stored into the data files and proposed
again while reloading data files.
2- Ergonomic modifications
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- Move the setting window buttons (Modify, Accept, Select...), the graph
buttons (zoom, selector...), current channel values and run buttons to
dockable tool bars.
- Protocol linker modification:
- remove the "protocol linker" tab sheet (4th tab) from the
settings window (and add functions such as Insert technique or remove
technique to the Setting window mouse right click).
- add the possibility to insert (before or after another technique) and
remove techniques in linked protocols.
- allow to set several linked protocols into the same modify session (it
is not necessary now to accept each protocol individually).
- add the possibility to synchronize channels with linked techniques
- Merge the battery and other techniques cell characteristics into a single
window.
- Remove the process on line and add the on-line processed variables to the
native ones into the selector without any action of the user. In the
selector on-line processed variables are now automatically available under
the straight line.
- Modification of all the main menus with a more experimental progression
from left to right.
- Group the Process off-line menus into a single one "Process data
(calc. Cycle, R,..) located into the Analysis main menu.
- Remove triggers techniques from the "Advanced settings" window
and added in the technique selection window.
- Complete modification of the technique selection window now separated into
two categories: electrochemical techniques and electrochemical applications.
- In the electrochemical techniques, creation of a technique builder section
(for linked experiments) including MP and MG techniques, triggers, wait and
loop.
- Possibility to choose icons of the tool bars and of the right clicks.
3- Creation of a new Analysis menu:
- Fits (Linear, Rp, Tafel)
- Peak analysis (no baseline, linear baseline, polynomiale baseline & free
cursors)
- Wave analysis
- MottShottcky analysis
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4- New techniques
- Staircase voltammetry
- Staircase Potentio Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (Mott-Schottky)
(SPEIS)
- Staircase Galvano Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (Mott-Schottky)
(SGEIS)
5- Technique modifications and other improvements
- Improve the potential scans method. There is no need do enter a negative
scan value to go from a high potential to a lower one. The scan direction is
automatically calculated from the bounds value.
Improved scan (in red)
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- Add the possibility to record either average current or instantaneous
current for the techniques that use potential scans (mainly for corrosion
techniques: LP, CPP, DP, MPP...).
Improved I recording (in blue)
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- Add the possibility to define potential versus the last OCV, controlled,
measured or initial potential value or versus none (versus REF), within most
of the techniques.
- Add the possibility to define currents versus the last controlled,
measured or initial current value or versus none, within most of the
techniques.
- Possibility to choose current convention between IUPAC or inverted
convention.
- The "Potentiostatic Impedance" (ZPOT) technique has been renamed into "Potentio
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy" (PEIS) and has now the possibility to
record data during the potentiostatic period.
- The "Galvanostatic Impedance" (ZGAL) technique has been renamed into
"Galvano Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy" (GEIS) and has now the
possibility to record data during the galvanostatic period.
- Possibility to save linked protocols as custom applications and reload it
in the technique selection window.
- Add triggers as techniques in the technique builder
- Possibility to generate automatically the data file names with a number
increment.
- Add quick starts and sample data files
- Allow to control and measure the current on 2.4 times the current Range
(with some potential limitations), except for the 1 A range.
- Add the possibility to enter the surfaces into nmē (into the cell
characteristics tab)
- New connection window with possibility to display EC-LabŪ windows for
virtual instruments when not connected.
- Integration of new instruments: VSP, HCP-803, EPP-400, EPP-4000, VMP3, VMP3B-4A, VMP3B
80A/3V
- The external devices menu has been extended to other instruments than
thermostats and RDE. And it is now possible to customize the analogic input
units.
- The COPY-PASTE tool has been significantly improved with compatibility
with Condecon
software
5- Added support for USB as an alternative to Ethernet for all new
instruments:
VSP, HCP-803, EPP-400, EPP-4000, VMP3
EC-LabŪ - download
EC-LabŪ is available for free download to registered users. Click here
to access the support section
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