Plot of output signal intensity from a spectrometer, signal intensity from another detector, or processed intensity information from the available software along a line corresponding to a line on the sample surface.
Note: The line is most often an x- or y-linescan from a rectangular
raster, but, in more sophisticated systems, might be in any arbitrary direction.
Source:
PAC, 2020, 92, 1781. 'Glossary of methods and terms used in surface chemical analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)' on page 1807 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0404)