On Thursday 11 November 2004 01:12 pm, Grant Bunker wrote:
I haven't played with these data or this analysis, but the difficulty in fitting the known structure may suggest a problem with the data.
One experimental problem that springs to mind, since MoS2 is a layered structure, is whether there might be a preferred orientation in the sample particles, i.e. the particles might not be randomly oriented. Since the x-ray beam is polarized this could cause some serious weirdness in the XAFS fitting (if the polarization weren't explicitly considered).
If preferred orientation is indeed the culprit, that could be determined by comparing a diffractogram of the sample used in the XAS experiment with the calculated peak ratios. B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 222 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 2268 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 4642 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b National Synchrotron Light Source Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/