Re: [Ifeffit] Shift in Eo when fitting PtO2 and similar samples

2023-08-23 Thread Kelly, Shelly Diane
Hello Yanny: I've modeled a few Pt EXAFS spectra and have found that using an E0 at the top of the white line usually does a better job of getting the data close to the theory. This seems to be often the case with the L3-edges as they are rather broad compared to the K-edges of transition

[Ifeffit] Beamline Scientist at APS

2023-05-09 Thread Kelly, Shelly Diane
Hello Fellow XAS scientists: We have a position open for beamline scientist in the Spectroscopy Group at the APS. Please reach out to all those that might be interested in joining our team here in Chicago-land area.

Re: [Ifeffit] (no subject)

2023-04-25 Thread Kelly, Shelly Diane
Hello Joyti, I'm not sure I know what your definition of 'exact' and 'average'. The exafs signal comes from each atom that is probed by the x-ray beam. The total signal is exactly an average of the local atomic environment of all atoms. If half the atoms have 4 carbon neighbors and the other

Re: [Ifeffit] FEFF10 simulation of Pt alloy

2023-01-16 Thread Kelly, Shelly Diane
Hello Harry: I’m not sure how to help you with your specific question, but you might find this paper helpful. High Energy Resolution Fluorescence Detection of the Pt L3, 2-Edge Whitelines of Pt-Based Bimetallic Systems: Implications for the Pt 5d5/2, 3/2 Density of States Chen J, Finfrock Y,

Re: [Ifeffit] Fit in R or k

2021-10-12 Thread Kelly, Shelly D.
Hi Will: The relationship between the data in k-space and R-space is described in this tutorial: https://docs.xrayabsorption.org/tutorials/Basics_of_XAFS_to_chi_2009.pdf Take a look at what a Fourier transform does. In few words I'd say it doesn't matter which representation of the data

Re: [Ifeffit] S02 selection from reviewer

2021-10-02 Thread Kelly, Shelly D.
Hi Peng: It might be helpful to understanding some of Matt's points regarding S02 transferability, Ei and energy resolution by looking at this paper. Comparison of EXAFS foil spectra from around the world DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/190/1/012032 Kind regards, Shelly -Original Message-

[Ifeffit] Beamline Scientist position

2021-07-01 Thread Kelly, Shelly D.
Hello XAFS community: I'm excited to let you know that we have an opening for beamline scientist within the Spectroscopy group at the Advanced Photon Source. Please help spread the word. https://bit.ly/3iN7Ehe Kind Regards, Shelly Kelly Spectroscopy Group Leader Advanced Photon Source

Re: [Ifeffit] Normalization in Athena

2009-10-26 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Hi Lisa, Be sure that Athena has been rigorously tested and she does know how to normalize data. It is much more likely that the default values are not the best ones for your data. My book chapter goes over how Athena normalizes data in detail. If you send me your email address I'll send you a

Re: [Ifeffit] Athena error reading file

2009-08-26 Thread Kelly, Shelly
I believe the problem is a comment line that contains a single number. If you remove that line, they read in just fine. Shelly -Original Message- From: ifeffit-boun...@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov [mailto:ifeffit- boun...@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Christopher Allen Sent:

Re: [Ifeffit] Ifeffit Digest, Vol 77, Issue 11

2009-07-10 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Hi Damdin, I apologize for not getting a response to you sooner. It is possible to both of the things that you suggest. In the future, it would be helpful to use a good subject line for your question. Cheers, Shelly -Original Message- From:

Re: [Ifeffit] Radial distribution

2009-06-18 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Hi Eug, I'm not sure that I understand your question. Do you mean that your ran FEFF and want to plot the magnitude of the Fourier transform of the FEFF calculation? If so, you will want to use Artemis for that. There is information about how to use Artemis on the tutorials page of

Re: [Ifeffit] Fitting procedure

2009-04-17 Thread Kelly, Shelly
and what we are trying to say is that your method is not generally accepted as the best way to model data. Shelly From: ifeffit-boun...@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov [mailto:ifeffit-boun...@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of abhijeet gaur Sent:

Re: [Ifeffit] Fitting procedure

2009-04-17 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Okay. Sure, I agree with Matt. But I don't think that this data can be broken into different shellsotherwise I do not believe that the model would fail when the entire data range is optimized together. There could be two reasons that the model fails. Either there are correlations that were

Re: [Ifeffit] Basic questions

2009-04-15 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Hi Haiyan, Please send me mail directly to get a copy of the book chapter. dr.sdke...@gmail.com Cheers, Shelly From: ifeffit-boun...@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov [mailto:ifeffit-boun...@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of haiyan Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [Ifeffit] Linear combination fitting

2009-04-07 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Hi Guven, Wow that is amazing. Would you share your Athena project file with us? I believe that it is possible but I'm a bit surprised that the numbers flip so evenly. What happens when you increase the energy range on the xanes fit so that it includes more of the EXAFS features? And what

Re: [Ifeffit] Basic questions

2009-04-06 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Hi Andy, I have a book chapter that details how to set the k-range for a data set. It also talks about Rbkg in detail. If you want a copy just send me an email. Cheers, Shelly -Original Message- From: ifeffit-boun...@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov [mailto:ifeffit-

Re: [Ifeffit] About S02

2009-03-27 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Hi Damdin, S02 is 100% the same as the CN, the degeneracy, and the edge step determined in the background removal process. Your S02 is a bit on the small side so I would check the edge step in Athena. I would also check the CN used in the model by looking at the results page for each path. This

Re: [Ifeffit] Request for Foil Spectra

2009-03-04 Thread Kelly, Shelly
: [Ifeffit] Request for Foil Spectra Dear Shelly, I have spectra of Au and Cu foils recorded at ambient conditions at the ESRF. Do you want them? Gleb Kelly, Shelly wrote: !-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:SimSun; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1;} @font-face {font

[Ifeffit] Request for Foil Spectra

2009-03-03 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Hi Everyone, I'm planning on submitting a small EXAFS 14 paper on the comparison of S02 from different beamlines using foils of Cu, Pd, Ag, and Au spectra. I've raided the APS/XOR data for Cu and Ag spectra from all around the APS ring. If you would like to donate foil spectra to the cause,

Re: [Ifeffit] book chapter

2009-01-16 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Thanks for all the kind words. We hoped the chapter would be useful. Cheers, Shelly -Original Message- From: ifeffit-boun...@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov on behalf of Dominik Samuelis Sent: Fri 1/16/2009 5:52 AM To: lnch...@yahoo.co.uk; XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit Subject: Re: [Ifeffit]

Re: [Ifeffit] book chapter

2009-01-15 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Oh drat. I didn't realize that this went to the whole list. Sorry for filling up your email box. Shelly -Original Message- From: ifeffit-boun...@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov [mailto:ifeffit- boun...@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Kelly, Shelly Sent: Thursday, January 15

Re: [Ifeffit] distinguishing between actual shells and artifacts

2009-01-14 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Hi Hashem, I show one method for doing this in my book chapter Figure 14-23 on page 431. (I feel a bit like a broken record). I will send you a copy if you want. Shelly -Original Message- From: ifeffit-boun...@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov [mailto:ifeffit-

Re: [Ifeffit] Query regarding error bars

2009-01-09 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Hi Bindu, There are lots of descriptions of these concepts on the exafs.org web page. Check out the Tutorials page. I wrote about them in my book chapter on page 58. If you like, I can send you a copy. It is kinda big so you will need to have 8Meg space in your mail box. Shelly -Original

Re: [Ifeffit] problem on opening data file

2008-11-10 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Hi Ruoshuang, Go to the settings menu - Plugin Registry and then check the X10C read files from NSLS beamline X10C button. And then try again. Shelly -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ifeffit- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ruoshuang Huang Sent: Monday, November

Re: [Ifeffit] Normalization of XANES spectra

2008-10-29 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Hi Jens, Here is my stab at pitching in. The x-ray fluorescence signal is a sum of the signals from all the N atoms in the sample that are in the x-ray beam. (Assume that the sample is not too thick so that all the fluorescent x-rays can get out of the sample.) The background slope of the

Re: [Ifeffit] question

2008-10-15 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Hi Guvenc, It sounds like you need to build some basics. A great place to start is with the Athena and Artemis documentation and the tutorials on www.xafs.org. There are also worked examples using Artemis and Athena installed with the software. Ifeffit\examples\Artemis\ZnO might be an

Re: [Ifeffit] What confidence limit is implied in the errorbars forleast-squares fitting in Athena

2008-10-03 Thread Kelly, Shelly
? Or instead do you mean that an inappropriate choice of standards can create unreliability in the fit? I would appreciate any details you can add to your repsonse. Thanks, Don On Thu, 2008-02-10 at 14:22 -0700, Kelly, Shelly wrote: Hi Andrew, If you are fitting XANES spectra

Re: [Ifeffit] [ATOMS] supercell input file

2008-09-19 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Hi Mauro, If I understand correctly, you would like to generate a feff.inp file from an atoms.inp file where the only Fe atom is the absorber. But the resulting feff.inp file can not be run because it always makes an ipot 1 for a neighboring Fe atom but there are not any. So you have to go in

Re: [Ifeffit] quotation of figures

2008-07-16 Thread Kelly, Shelly D.
I'd like to add my 2cents worth about the mean square displacement term. I wrote it up on the EXAFS wiki, since I like to say it over and over. see http://www.xafs.org/Common_Mistakes Shelly From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Scott Calvin Sent: Wed

Re: [Ifeffit] quotation of figures

2008-07-16 Thread Kelly, Shelly D.
Hi Eckhard, The first slide also has problems. The first path is a single scattering path. All the others are double scattering paths. The word single, double and triple are used to describe the number of atoms that scatter. The number of legs is used to tell the difference between the

Re: [Ifeffit] quotation of figures

2008-07-16 Thread Kelly, Shelly D.
Yah know,,,I'm wrong The last one is a triple scattering path with just two scattering atoms. the leg part is right... oops SK From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Kelly, Shelly D. Sent: Wed 7/16/2008 11:45 PM To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit Subject: Re

Re: [Ifeffit] Athena: k-weight=3 in background removal problem

2008-07-08 Thread Kelly, Shelly D.
Hi Joseph, I have a book chapter that explains how the different k-weighting affect the chi(k) data produced in the background removal. I'll send it to you directly, so as not to fill up everyone's mail box. Here is the reference for others that might be interested. Kelly, S.D., Hesterberg,

Re: [Ifeffit] Dodgy Edge Steps

2008-04-28 Thread Kelly, Shelly D.
Hi Lachlan, The reason that you want to keep the total absorption less than 3 is because the number of transmitted x-rays becomes small. I=I0 exp(-mu x). So for mu x =3 the number of transmitted x-rays are 5% of the incident x-ray intensity. If you have a lot of x-rays then you can

Re: [Ifeffit] How to generate the input information for Atom

2007-11-06 Thread Kelly, Shelly D.
Hi Fenglong, You can do the next part of the analysis in Artemis. I have a powerpoint tutorial showing the different parts of Artemis on the xafs.org wiki. http://www.xafs.org/Tutorials It is called Basics_of_XAFS_analysis.pdf It is a bit dated now, but the main points are all the same. I

[Ifeffit] Re xanes feff8 sulfur

2007-10-15 Thread Kelly, Shelly D.
Hi Eckard, I realize that you have posted a message every month for about 3 months in a row without any reply: Shame on us... I will try to answer some of your questions and maybe that will help to get some discussion going. The energy scale in feff8 is NOT defined as you would expect it to

Re: [Ifeffit] question about Eo and simultaneous fitting

2007-02-14 Thread Kelly, Shelly D.
Hi Tony, The approach that I like to take, is to vary the choice of E0 in the background subtraction step so that the chi(k) spectra are well aligned with each other and the theory. Then only one Ezero parameter is needed. Cheers, Shelly -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Ifeffit] question about Eo and simultaneous fitting

2007-02-14 Thread Kelly, Shelly D.
Hi Scott, The change in frequency is a bigger affect at high k than the energy shift parameter. The energy shift parameter affects the data more strongly at low k. So I align the data to each other at low k, and then they become out of phase with each other at high k. A similar effect is seen

RE: [Ifeffit] Projekt with the flatten-problem

2007-01-11 Thread Kelly, Shelly D.
Hi Jens, I believe the problem is related to the structure in the data before E0. If you choose e0 to be at the beginning of the structure then the normalization is handled better by Athena. Take a look at the attached project file. The first data set with e0 on the edge as you would choose for

RE: [Ifeffit] Projekt with the flatten-problem

2007-01-11 Thread Kelly, Shelly D.
and do not use any E-shift. Bruce or Matt may have to comment, but it appears to me that the normalization/flatten routine may not be dealing with the E-shift appropriately. Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly, Shelly D

RE: [Ifeffit] Is there a physical meaning to a negative SO2

2007-01-09 Thread Kelly, Shelly D.
Hi Todd, One thing to try is to set s02 to a positive value and all the other variables to reasonable values and then look at the real or imaginary parts of the Fourier transform and also look at the chi(k) spectra. You should see the affect that Scott mentioned. Shelly -Original

RE: [Ifeffit] Generating Atom lists using Artemis

2007-01-08 Thread Kelly, Shelly D.
--- Shelly Kelly Argonne National Laboratory Bldg 203, RM E113 On Saturday 06 January 2007 10:53, Kelly, Shelly D. wrote: Hello Artemis users, I found an interesting feature in Artemis when generating a list of atoms from the attached cif file worth sharing

[Ifeffit] Generating Atom lists using Artemis

2007-01-06 Thread Kelly, Shelly D.
Hello Artemis users, I found an interesting feature in Artemis when generating a list of atoms from the attached cif file worth sharing on the list. In the attached cif file for Pd2Si the position of the Si2 atoms are at x,y,z = 0., 0.6667, 0 with a space group of p -6 2 m. Using this cif