The aim of the work is to develop a tool for correlative topography and kpfm analysis of 2D material surfaes in the form of a software package in any programming language (C, C++, Java, Matlab / Octave, Python,...) testing and also extensive description of properties of 2D materials I suggest you to collect this information in the table in which you group the properties (eg. optical, electrical, mechanical). You should also point out which of them can be determined on the basis of KPFM or CFM measurements.
statements of selected 20 scientific papers (in the form of three sentences per paper). They would be combined, grouped and put in order in the final text.
The order and structure of the introduction should be done in original way. This the reason why I suggest you to collect and group properties in the table.
Look at the paper below. It is about impact of mechanical stress on electrical properties. This is what we would like to observe by correlation of AFM and KPFM or C-AFM images. Dig around this article (check citing and cited articles).
Do some research on the surface properties (roughness, skewness, curtosis, and even more important mean slope and curvature). Think how to calculate them in a programming tool you want to use or even implement them because we are short in time.
My background in Physical Chemistry and Material science. I have several years of experience in microscopy (including Atomic Force Microscopy and optical microscopy) mostly related to Biological sampling. I also have experience in image processing, mostly using Matlab/Octave and Python. As I understand:
1. You want a short literature review for a paper...I guess.
2. You want your data analyzed and a software package. The parameters that you propose are absolutely measurable and using Python is best I think as Numpy is quiet effective in handling large data sets and in the long run the package will be easily developed (if in the future you want to build a GUI etc.).
I have some questions:
What microscopes do you use and what is the image format that the images will be/have been saved in? If it is a proprietary format is it acceptable to save in image format like tiff? How many images have to be processed? What is the time-frame you are thinking about?
Final time to finish project really depends on how data look like, how many new questions arise while analyzing them. I tried to estimate...