Abhijeet, I took a quick peak at your project and I find it very confusing. In the most recent fit, you are fitting only from 3.5 to 4.4 -- the area under the *third* peak in the data. I don't really know how to comment on this project because you have set a large number of parameters to seemingly arbitrary values. From a numerical perspective, the reason for questions 1 and 2 is because you are attempting to fit only a narrow and of the data and you have set the majority of your parameters. That seems an unlikely strategy to me. I think the best thing you could do would be to fit *all* of your data rather than an arbitrary and small band of it. It would probably be fruitful for you to study carefully Shelly's example of analysis of SnO2 from her recent review chapter. See http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/pipermail/ifeffit/2008-July/003641.html and http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/pipermail/ifeffit/2009-January/004012.html B -- Bruce Ravel ------------------------------------ bravel@bnl.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Methods Group at NSLS --- Beamlines U7A, X24A, X23A2 Building 535A Upton NY, 11973 Hello Bruce sir, Thanks for your response. You must be talking about the 14th chapter of the book "Soil and Mineral analysis using XAS". I have that chapter with me. It is very explainatory one. with regards Abhijeet