Re: [Ifeffit] XAS fitting

2019-10-11 Thread Chris Patridge
You can run two calculations and import the paths and scale the contributions from each site. There are a lot of examples and this has been discussed before on the mailing list if you search. Hope that helps, Chris * Dr. Chris Patridge Assistant

Re: [Ifeffit] Plotting flattened feffit simulation results

2019-01-28 Thread Chris Patridge
Hello, You said you averaged in E(k)? Is this reciprocal space? Are calculating XANES or EXAFS spectra with Feff? You said you would transform the data to real space so I assume it is EXAFS. I don’t think there is flattened mode in EXAFS. If you clarify what you are calculating that might

Re: [Ifeffit] install for mac error

2018-04-03 Thread Chris Patridge
Thank you for the input Matt. I am glad to hear that it is not “user error”. I tried it again and I need to correct my earlier statement because Artemis GUI will stay open after the warning however Athena closes/crashes. I will try on a different system. Thanks again, Chris Sent from my

Re: [Ifeffit] Athena and Artemis installation problem

2015-10-26 Thread Chris Patridge
Hi Wuhib, If these problems persist, instead of relying on Bruce or others, perhaps consider running a free virtual machine of windows to install Demeter. I have a Mac as a main computer and run the software through virtual Windows machine without much of problem. Just a thought, Chris

Re: [Ifeffit] Vanadium-Chromium Prussian Blue Analog XANES fitting

2015-07-31 Thread Chris Patridge
at 6:12 PM, Chris Patridge patri...@buffalo.edu wrote: The standard curve using V standard, how are you making the curve? You probably know from the Wong paper that there are pre edge features for the vanadium oxide species. We used a very similar method to assign oxidation states to doped

Re: [Ifeffit] Vanadium-Chromium Prussian Blue Analog XANES fitting

2015-07-30 Thread Chris Patridge
The standard curve using V standard, how are you making the curve? You probably know from the Wong paper that there are pre edge features for the vanadium oxide species. We used a very similar method to assign oxidation states to doped vanadium oxide compounds between 3-5. The method gave us

Re: [Ifeffit] Breaking down correlationships between parameters

2015-03-23 Thread Chris Patridge
I think Scott was pointing out that first neighbors may be known with high certainty and therefore you can set this value thereby removing it and slightly reducing the correlations. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Mar 23, 2015, at 7:00 AM, Rana, Jatinkumar Kantilal

Re: [Ifeffit] amplitude parameter S02 larger than 1

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Patridge
Quoting Chris Patridge patri...@buffalo.edu: Hi, One thing that could be considered is transferring the SO2 factor from a reliable source such as a standard and then use that value in the fit. Chemical transferability of SO2 to similar systems is often acceptable. You could also try

Re: [Ifeffit] amplitude parameter S02 larger than 1

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Patridge
Yanyun, The so2 also has a correlation with the Debye factor as well. You should also look at that parameter in the fits you've done. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Mar 20, 2015, at 3:46 PM, huyan...@physics.utoronto.ca wrote: Hi Scott, Thank you so much for giving me your thought

Re: [Ifeffit] amplitude parameter S02 larger than 1

2015-03-19 Thread Chris Patridge
Hi, One thing that could be considered is transferring the SO2 factor from a reliable source such as a standard and then use that value in the fit. Chemical transferability of SO2 to similar systems is often acceptable. You could also try constraining the value in the fit as well. SO2 and

Re: [Ifeffit] Bug Report: Error while handling files in Athena in the latest version, Demeter 0.9.20_pre7

2014-07-07 Thread Chris Patridge
What system are working on? It might be system specific. Thanks Chris Sent from my iPhone On Jul 7, 2014, at 5:45 AM, Badari Rao badari@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sir, I am facing two problems while handling files in Athena. First of all, when I freshly open Athena and import a file,

Re: [Ifeffit] EXAFS Fitting for Ni sorb to bacterial biomass and Mn oxides

2014-03-18 Thread Chris Patridge
While I don't have much experience with biological samples in exafs, if you need to generate Ni - C paths, use the virtual path function in the new Dartemis which is very easy to use. Chris Dr. Christopher Patridge Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Re: [Ifeffit] Fwd: problems with setting parameters in new Artemis (Demeter 0.9.16)

2014-02-28 Thread Chris Patridge
Dr. Christopher Patridge Assistant Professor of Chemistry Math and Natural Science Dept BFAC 009 D'Youville College 320 Porter Ave., Buffalo, NY 14150 716-829-8096 Sent from my iPhone On Feb 28, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Chris Patridge patri...@buffalo.edu wrote: Hi, The easiest

Re: [Ifeffit] Fwd: problems with setting parameters in new Artemis (Demeter 0.9.16)

2014-02-28 Thread Chris Patridge
Hi, The easiest constraint would be a mathematical expression such as a + b = 1. Do you have an experimental value for so2 as found for something chemically similar such as a standard at that edge? Then replace so2 expression for each path as value found * a and value found * b. This should

Re: [Ifeffit] Demeter not working on Windows 8.1 64bit

2014-01-14 Thread Chris Patridge
Shoaib, Do you have any experience with virtual machines? You could run it on a stable earlier version of Windows that you previous used before upgrading. Virtualbox and Linux would completely free and you could probably be up and running in less than an hour. Just a thought, Chris

Re: [Ifeffit] fitting a specific k range

2013-12-05 Thread Chris Patridge
Matt, Outside of the question of fitting the data, can you collect absorption data on the additional 3+ metal you are adding the material? Chris *** Dr. Christopher Patridge Assistant Professor Department of Math and Natural Sciences D'youville

Re: [Ifeffit] fitting a specific k range

2013-12-05 Thread Chris Patridge
Bruce, Without those friendly warnings (reminders), beginners would likely fall down several rabbit holes before understanding many of the important steps necessary to get meaningful answers in EXAFS. I know I would have. Chris *** Dr. Christopher

Re: [Ifeffit] error function in Athena's peak analysis module

2012-11-24 Thread Chris Patridge
Linda, I don't know if Athena's strongest feature is peak fitting. It has been discussed before and it might be better to export the processed data and use a more robust fitting program. buena salud, Chris Patridge On Nov 24, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Linda Lim ywl...@stanford.edu wrote: Hi every

Re: [Ifeffit] Calculation of a XANES spectrum

2012-11-17 Thread Chris Patridge
Wei, Your calculated results give some sort of structural information of the material? You can simply augment an existing Feff file and paste the atomic positions. One particular advantage of the program is that the absorbing atom does not need to be positioned at the origin. You designate

Re: [Ifeffit] Calculation of a XANES spectrum

2012-11-17 Thread Chris Patridge
I have really only worked with Feff9.0 but I don't think there were a changes between the two except for the GUI JFeff. Chris On Nov 17, 2012, at 10:06 PM, Wei Li we...@udel.edu wrote: Thank, Chris. Do I need a Feff8 or Feff9 to do the job? Wei On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Chris

Re: [Ifeffit] EXAFS analysis of a sample having two metal centres with different coordination geometry

2011-07-21 Thread Chris Patridge
On 7/21/2011 3:44 PM, Abhijeet Gaur wrote: Hi all, I am doing EXAFS analysis of a sample having two metal centres with different coordination geometry. In my sample two (Cu) metal centres are present and these metal centres are surrounded by different ligands (atoms) in different

Re: [Ifeffit] amplitude values too high (100%)

2010-08-11 Thread Chris Patridge
software and quite useful. All of the other distances correlate to the distances from the structure. buena salud, -- Chris Patridge PhD. Candidate Dept. of Chemistry SUNY University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260 Contact: 315-529-0501 ___ Ifeffit

Re: [Ifeffit] Neg SS

2010-07-16 Thread Chris Patridge
I think the xas of soil book has been mentioned on this list before. It contains a detailed example of theoretical modeling for background subtraction among other things. Buena salud, Chris Patridge On Jul 16, 2010, at 3:33 AM, Abhijeet Gaur abhijeetga...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: [Ifeffit] Negative ss problem

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Patridge
, Chris Patridge On Jul 14, 2010, at 2:59 AM, Abhijeet Gaur abhijeetga...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I read the discussion on negative Debye waller factor. As per the discussion the negative value of this factor shows that the model has shortcomings, so it should be corrected. I

[Ifeffit] can sigma square ever be less than zero?

2010-06-28 Thread Chris Patridge
are well isolated from the other paths, it gives reasonable values for amplitude and enot of 0.77 (0.17) and -1.14 (3.06) respectively. delr is -0.067 (0.028) and then ss comes out to -0.00036 (0.00414). Can ss be negative if the uncertainty brings it above 0? Thank you all, Chris Patridge PhD

[Ifeffit] Silver oxide Standard

2009-12-21 Thread Chris Patridge
hello everyone, I am asking if anyone might have any oxygen K near edge data for silver oxide standards? We forgot to collect the sample at our last beamline time. Thank you in advance, Chris Patridge ___ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit

[Ifeffit] Rbkg value

2009-10-23 Thread Chris Patridge
meaning that they have some contributions very close to 1.0 A and below in R space due to phase shift. Has anyone modeled materials which contain these rather short Reff and how did you decide what was scattering and noise? Thank you all, Chris Patridge UB Graduate Student

[Ifeffit] Athena Artemis crashing

2009-10-20 Thread Chris Patridge
the lost work after crashing? Buena salud, Chris Patridge UB Graduate Student Department of Chemistry Cell: 315-529-0501 ___ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit

Re: [Ifeffit] Athena Artemis crashing

2009-10-20 Thread Chris Patridge
projects more often. Thanks, Chris Patridge -Original Message- From: ifeffit-boun...@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov [mailto:ifeffit-boun...@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Bruce Ravel Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:23 AM To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] Athena

[Ifeffit] Ag NP standards

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Patridge
Ag(salt) Cl, No3, So4 standards if anyone may be in need of those. Buena Salud, Chris Patridge Graduate Student Cell: 315-529-0501 ___ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman

[Ifeffit] Vanadium pre edge peak contributes to K-space?

2009-08-25 Thread Chris Patridge
Hello all, After calibration, alignment and merging V K edge data, there seems to be a large peak in R space below 1 A. From most examples and readings, this would seem to be noise since atoms do not reside that close to each other. Adding a background addresses this noise but then the

Re: [Ifeffit] Vanadium pre edge peak contributes to K-space?

2009-08-25 Thread Chris Patridge
Segre se...@iit.edu mailto:se...@iit.edu wrote: Hi Chris: If you could attach an Athena project file, it would help us to answer your question. Carlo On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Chris Patridge wrote: Hello all, After calibration, alignment and merging V K edge data

[Ifeffit] Proper data processing in Athena with large pre-edge features

2009-07-22 Thread Chris Patridge
Hi everyone, I am working on Vanadium K-edge EXAFS with various VxOx oxides. My question concerns deciding E0 and background spline in Athena. The K edge at 5465eV has a large peak before the edge jump and when subtracting the background and moving to K-space using the default settings, the