Re: [Ifeffit] iron carbide fitting with Artemis

2017-10-27 Thread Yunyun Zhou
Dear Fred, Thank you very much for your help. Your explanation does help me understand the theory behind. It also reminds me to be careful of using some parameters for future fitting analysis. Thank you so much and have a great weekend! Best, Yunyun On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 2:24 AM,

Re: [Ifeffit] iron carbide fitting with Artemis

2017-10-27 Thread Yunyun Zhou
Hello Mike, Thank you so much for your detailed explanation. I do appreciate your help. I agree with you that walking through these steps with an expert will be much helpful. I should attend some XAFS workshop in the future. Thanks again for your help. Have a great weekend! Best, Yunyun On

Re: [Ifeffit] iron carbide fitting with Artemis

2017-10-27 Thread fred.mosselmans
Dear Yunyun, I don't think Mike has written anything particularly incorrect , but he didn't point out why this approach is necessary. I believe there are two things you should definitely be aware of. An EXAFS dataset has a very limited amount of information. Approximately deltak.deltaR no of

Re: [Ifeffit] iron carbide fitting with Artemis

2017-10-26 Thread Mike Massey
The way I usually do it is to just pick one of the FEFF paths (instead of both) corresponding to the distance you care about. I actually haven't used the latest version of Artemis to do any fitting recently, but I assume it is still similar. In your list of FEFF paths, pick C1.1, right-click

Re: [Ifeffit] iron carbide fitting with Artemis

2017-10-26 Thread Yunyun Zhou
Hello Mike, Thank you very much for your help. I have a question about combining different atoms in a shell. For example, in the Fe5C2 model, ATOMS * this list contains 221 atoms * x y z ipot tag distance 0.00.00.0 0

Re: [Ifeffit] iron carbide fitting with Artemis

2017-10-26 Thread Mike Massey
I definitely recommend combining multiple atoms of similar distances into the same path. That's what you end up with anyway if you use multiple paths, with a lot more potential problems in the software. Sometimes it is beneficial to split a shell of of atoms into two, to capture some physical