xsocs 2026.2.0

Xray Strain Orientation Calculation Software

The X-ray Strain Orientation Calculation Software (X-SOCS) is a user-friendly software, developed for automatic analysis of 5D sets of data recorded during continuous mapping measurements. X-SOCS aims at retrieving strain and tilt maps of nanostructures, films, surfaces or even embedded structures.

Documentation

Installation

X-SOCS runs on Linux, Windows and macOS with Python >=3.8 and can be installed with:

pip install xsocs[gui]

or with conda:

conda install -c conda-forge xsocs

See How to install XSocs for details.

Using XSOCS

Once installed, you can run X-SOCS from the console with either:

xsocs

Or:

python -m xsocs

See Using X-Socs documentation and the video tutorials.

License

The source code of X-SOCS is licensed under the MIT license.

References

X-SOCS can be referred by its DOI on Zenodo:

Reference publication:

Chahine, G. A., Richard, M.-I., Homs-Regojo, R. A., Tran-Caliste, T. N., Carbone, D., Jacques, V. L. R., Grifone, R., Boesecke, P., Katzer, J., Costina, I., Djazouli, H., Schroeder, T. & Schulli, T. U. “Imaging of strain and lattice orientation by quick scanning X-ray microscopy combined with three-dimensional reciprocal space mapping.” J. Appl. Cryst. (2014) 47, 762-769.