Thanks Carlo for that input. I will keep it in mind. Actually I also have this Eo>10 problem and I was following this dicussion closely. Thanks Ke for raising the problem. I think my problem lies with the 'Not so good modelling of data' as my compounds are Fe(II) based and the local structure of which is not known. These are new compounds. Although, I want to make sure that the basic steps such as E calibration and background removal is done correctly.
I am still facing problem with the background removal. How would you know that the RBKG value if set to 1.2 or 1.4 etc is good and the Background removal is ok to use from Athena and take it over to Artemis? are there any set of parameters we should check, that if ok we can consider the BKG removal is good?
Thank you everyone in advance for your anticipated help.
Pushkar

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Carlo Segre <segre@iit.edu> wrote:

Either way is fine but I would suggest taht you not use the calibrate function, just read off the zero crossing and put it into the E0 location. Calibrate actually shifts the data and that is not necessarily what you want to do, particularly if you are comparing spectra..

Carlo


On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Pushkar wrote:

Dear Ke
Is there a reason you use first derivative?? I thought if you take second derivative on Athena and then click find zero and then calibrate that value is the correct way. I am learning XAFS myself for the first time and I am novice too. So may be I make no sense but just want to confirm if I am not doing anything wrong. What's your stake in this??
Pushkar

Pushkar Shejwalkar
Post-doctoral researcher, JSPS fellow,
Catalysis Research Center
Hokkaido University,
Sapporo
Japan-0010020


On १६ ऑक्टो, २०१४, at १२:२७ म.पू., Ke Yuan <keyuan@umich.edu> wrote:

Hello Sin Yuen,

Thanks for forwarding me that study materials on E0.

I use Athena to find the highest peak on the fist derivative of the spectra and pick that value as E0. I think I did not put E0 above this value. I will try to put it on the high energy side to see what will happen.

Tks!
Ke

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