Hi Bruce
I have spent 1 month to learn the Athena by using your "ATHENA User's Guide" updated at Aug. 31,2007. I am very satisfied with it and thank you very much. Now I am learning the ARTEMIS. However, till now I can not find a suitable guide for a beginner. The PPT wrote by Shelly is not suitable for me. And the "artemisdoc.pod" is also puzzled me. Is there a Artemis User's Guide like the Athena?
Thanks
Kefan
-- Kefan Wang School of Physics and Electronics Henan University, 475004 E-mail: kfwang@henu.edu.cn; wang.kefan@gmail.com
Hi Kefan, I suspect that my answer to this question will be of broad interest, so I am taking the liberty of CCing the Ifeffit mailing list. Thank you for the very kind words regaridng Athena. I am pleased that you found the Athena User's Guide so helpful. Sadly, I have not yet written a document of comparable extent for Artemis. I certainly understand that there is a need for comparable user guide, but finding the time and energy to write one has not yet happened. Writing the Athena User's Guide was fairly exhausting and I need to take a break before embarking on a similarly large document for Artemis. I have to defend Shelly's various presentations. I think they have a lot of good information in them. I think that using them along with other resources can give you enough of an overview of Artemis to get started. I strongly recommend that you work through Scott Calvin's ZnO example, which can be foun at http://cars9.uchicago.edu/iffwiki/HoraeSoftware#contrib ZnO is somewhat of an idealized example -- many of us work on problems that are pretty far removed from a simple crystal like ZnO. However, Scott's example is quite thorough. Working through it while carefully following his comments in the project journals will introduce many of Artemis' features. As for the pod file -- those are the files that get displayed when you click on one of the documentation buttons from within Artemis. I acknowledge that they are thin on details and somewhat out of date. The last bit of advice I can give you is to read the papers written by the names you see on the Ifeffit mailing list. The folks who offer answers to question on the list are also some of the best practitioners of EXAFS analysis using Feff. Although it might seem funny to read papers by Anatoly Frenkel or Paul Fons if you are studying environmental science (or Shelly Kelly's if you are a materials scientist), I strongly recommend doing so anyway. Their science might be pretty far away from what you do, but the EXAFS analysis strategies are quite instructive and are certainly transferable. I know that is not the answer you were hoping for, but it may be helpful nonetheless. Regards, B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- bravel@bnl.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Methods Group at Brookhaven National Laboratory Building 535A Upton NY, 11973 My homepage: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/