February 2024 - Ifeffit - millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov

[IFEFFIT] Polarized FEFF calculation
by Soyoung Kim 11 Mar '24

11 Mar '24

Dear XAFS community, I have a series of Ru K-edge data on a single-crystal RuO2 sample measured at different incident X-ray angles. Because of the linear polarization of X-rays, the EXAFS of this single-crystal sample depends on the X-ray angle. I am trying to fit the four EXAFS spectra simultaneously with one set of parameters to extract the deltaR and MSRD parameters of this sample. For oriented samples, N for a certain single scattering path is supposed to be proportional to 3*cos^2(θ), where θ is the angle btwn the X-ray's e-vector and the absorber-scatterer vector. Instead of manually calculating the 3cos^2(θ) for all of the scattering paths in RuO2 (there are 7 single and 3 multiple scattering paths that need to be included to achieve a good fit with a reference RuO2 powder sample), I decided to use the polarization card in my FEFF input. For example, for one of the X-ray angles, the e-field vector would be (1, 0, 0), so I added the line "POLARIZATION 1 0 0" in the FEFF input file. Running this input file gave me a list of paths that had different importance values for each path compared to the non-polarized (isotropic) calculation. *Since "importance" is the relative magnitude of each path's scattering contribution (integration of the chi(k)), I thought that it would be proportional to 3cos^2(θ).* That is, for path i from a FEFF calculation for angle a, the "importance" (abbreviated as "Imp") of that path would be: Imp(a)_i = C(a) * Imp(iso)_i * 3cos^2(θ_i) where C(a) is a constant for each angle that accounts for the fact that importance values are relative (because it is scaled so that the first path in the list has an importance of 100). Now, I wanted to check whether the polarized FEFF calculations really follow this relationship underlined above. So, I tried manually calculating the values of 3cos^2(θ) for two of the paths from the same polarized FEFF calculation, then plug them into the above equation to get C(a). But, as the table below shows, the C(a) values are not the same. FEFF 1 has a disagreement that is small enough to ignore, but the disgareement of C(a) values for The disagreement is small enough to ignore for FEFF 1, but for FEFF 2 and 3 the disagreements are quite large. [image: image.png] *FEFF 1, 2, 3 designate individual polarized FEFF calculations. FEFF 1 was with polarization vector = (1, 0, 0). FEFF 2 and 3 were with polarization vector = (0.85, 1.13, 0). For this polarization, the two Ru sites gave different lists of paths. I do think the qualitative trend of the "importance" values in the polarized FEFF calculations is correct, and I can get a bad but not-disastrous fit from simultaneously fitting the data from different angles. However, the above analysis makes me wonder whether the "importance" values from polarized FEFF are truly proportional to 3cos^2(θ), and whether my fitting models for different angles, which I derived from the polarized FEFF calculations, are correct. An alternative would be to manually calculate 3cos^2(θ) for all the paths, but I'm not sure how to calculate it for multiple scattering paths. One note, I am running the FEFF calculation with Larix to get the importance values (labeled as "amp ratio" in the list.dat file, in the FEFF output folder). I wonder if the default settings for getting these amp ratios are not accurate enough for my purposes. It would be nice if I could just pull out the 3cos^2(θ) terms from the FEFF calculations... Anyways, thank you very much for reading this rather lengthy question. Hope it makes sense, and I would appreciate any help regarding this. Best, Soyoung

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Meaning of ldosNN
by jaskirat brar 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

Dear list I have a question regarding DOS calculations using feff. (I am using feff8.2) I have calculated the DOS of V-doped Ni, with Ni as the central atom and Ni and V as neighboring atoms. The potential indexes are 0 - Ni 1 - Ni 2 - V I have obtained ldos00.dat, ldos01.dat, and ldos02.dat files corresponding to the l-projected DOS for the NNth potential index. I am not clear about the meaning of ldosNN. Does it correspond to the DOS of the central atom modified by the presence of the potential index NN? If yes, does ldos02 contain the effect of both potentials 01 and 02 or that of just 02? If this is not the case, what does ldosNN mean? Kindly provide your comments to clarify this. Thanks in advance. Jaskirat Brar FMP Lab, South Campus IIT Mandi, H.P., India

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Re: [Ifeffit] Ifeffit Digest, Vol 252, Issue 21
by Ryuichi Shimogawa 21 Feb '24

21 Feb '24

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test/validation sample for air-sensitive sample cells?
by Gerald T. Seidler 21 Feb '24

21 Feb '24

Dear XAFS community, We've been developing air-sensitive sample cells for several of our XAFS experiments, but we don't have a good way of characterizing how well they actually reject air and water. Does anyone have recommendations for easily available 3d transition metal compounds that have a 'reasonable' amount of air sensitivity for purposes of sample call validation? Any suggestions for other methods to validate performance? We would grind the sample and form a pellet with a degassed binder, in a glovebox or glovebag. With thanks, Jerry -- *Gerald Seidler* *Professor, Physics Department* *University of Washington* *https://urldefense.us/v3/__http://faculty.washington.edu/seidler/index.html__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!bc8I7gtiYjYV5xc8tbm1xHCOWp8emLi4nZo7rvTjsDdGw3JMBVgas9avdYSiT995CKzLi-eu2GCc0RfkE-Cz2uX2VeU-3A$ <https://urldefense.us/v3/__http://faculty.washington.edu/seidler/index.html… >* *seidler(a)uw.edu <seidler(a)uw.edu>*

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Larix.desktop on Arch Linux AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'shape'
by Chris Vijeu 19 Feb '24

19 Feb '24

Hello, So I recently installed Larch on two different machines running two different distributions of Arch (Manjaro and EndeavourOS). When I am starting Larix.desktop from the terminal and open a .xlsx data file with two columns (energy and intensity), I get the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/chris/xraylarch/lib/python3.11/site-packages/larch/wxxas/xasgui.py", line 1162, in onReadDialog self.onRead(path) File "/home/chris/xraylarch/lib/python3.11/site-packages/larch/wxxas/xasgui.py", line 1187, in onRead self.show_subframe('readfile', ColumnDataFileFrame, filename=path, File "/home/chris/xraylarch/lib/python3.11/site-packages/larch/wxxas/xasgui.py", line 1114, in show_subframe self.subframes[name] = frameclass(self, **opts) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/home/chris/xraylarch/lib/python3.11/site-packages/larch/wxlib/columnframe.py", line 870, in __init__ self.set_energy_units() File "/home/chris/xraylarch/lib/python3.11/site-packages/larch/wxlib/columnframe.py", line 1208, in set_energy_units ncol, npts = workgroup.data.shape ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'shape' I haven't modified any of the respective files at all. This is what the programme came as. Chris Cristian Vijeu, Postgraduate PhD Student, Materials for Energy and Electronics Division of Natural Sciences

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Fe K-edge maghemite (gamma-Fe2O3)
by Christian Wittee Lopes 17 Feb '24

17 Feb '24

Dear XAFS community, Does anyone have a Fe K-edge XAS spectrum of maghemite (gamma-Fe2O3) sample or standard? Thank you in advance. Best, Christian Wittee Lopes -- Christian Wittee Lopes Professor Adjunto *Departamento de Química - Setor de Ciências Exatas* Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) *Curitiba - Paraná* *LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-wittee-lopes-561855219/> | ORCID <https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-8420-1958> | Lattes <http://lattes.cnpq.br/4953371870936050>*

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XAS data on U-oxychloride standards
by Nirmalendu Patra 15 Feb '24

15 Feb '24

Dear All, Can anyone share the XAS data collected at U L3-edge on various Uranium Oxychloride standards. ? Thank you. Kind regards, *Nirmalendu Patra*

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Problem with cif files using Larch
by Otal Eugenio 15 Feb '24

15 Feb '24

Dear all. I am trying to generate the path for fitting Mn and Ni K edge at LiMn1.5Ni0.5O2 using cif files from ICSD. I receive this error: *Elements: ['Li', 'Mn', 'Ni', 'O']Sites: [2.08337619 6.16682619 6.08352381] Li:0.980Traceback (most recent calls last): File "C:\Users\Me\xraylarch_2023_10\Lib\site-packages\larch\wxlib\cif_browser.py", line 447, in onShowCIF sites = ['%d' % (i+1) for i in range(len(sites))] ^^^^^^^^^^TypeError: object of type 'PeriodicSite' has no len()* I also attached the cif. Any hint to go forward? Best regards. (^ㅇᆽㅇ^)(=˃ᆺ˂=)(=🝦 ༝ 🝦=) Eugenio H. OTAL Assistant Professor Dept. of Materials Chemistry Shinshu University 4-17-1 Wakasato, Nagano 380-8553, JAPAN eugenio_otal(a)shinshu-u.ac.jp https://sites.google.com/view/zettsu-laboratory/news-updates ¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Who is John Galt? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Ir standards
by Ольга Филимонова 12 Feb '24

12 Feb '24

Hello! Does everyone have standards of metallic Ir, IrO2 etc.? (L3-edge, both XANES and EXAFS would work). Thank you! Sincerely, Olga -- Olga Filimonova Post-doc researcher - BM28 - XMaS Office: 30-1-24 Extension: 2436 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France

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weak scattering from second-nearest neighbors for single atom catalysts
by Qiang 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

Hi everyone, I would like to have a discussion about the common EXAFS for single atom catalysts. It is usually observed that there is only one strong peak around 1.5A in EXAFS, and it is attributed to the nearest neighbors of O or N. Take an example of Pt1/CeO2 catalyst. Pt single atom is coordinated with a few oxygens, i.e., PtOx. These oxygens constitute the first shell of Pt. It is supposed that these O should also attach to the metal element of the support (Ce here). So there is also Pt-O-Ce structure. Why it doesnot have strong scattering peak in EXAFS? Is it that because the Pt-O-Ce formed is not ordered, or it is actually not a bond just some weak contact? Thank you very much. Qiang

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