[Ifeffit] Fe foil at 900 C

Hello, We are measuring the kinetic of carbon nanotubes using Fe as catalytic element. To analyze the data, we need the Gamma iron (Fe fcc, iron foil measured with a temperature between 910 and 1400 C) EXAFS spectrum. We appreciate if anyone could send us this spectrum. Thanks a lot in advance, Sincerely Qingyu Kong Beamline ODE Société civile Synchrotron SOLEIL L'Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin - BP 48 91192 GIF-sur-YVETTE CEDEX Tel: +33 (0)1 69 35 97 84 (office) +33 (0)1 69 35 97 16 (beamline) email: kong@synchrotron-soleil.fr ________________________________________ From: ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov [ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] on behalf of ifeffit-request@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov [ifeffit-request@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 9:03 AM To: ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov Subject: Ifeffit Digest, Vol 100, Issue 6 Send Ifeffit mailing list submissions to ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ifeffit-request@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov You can reach the person managing the list at ifeffit-owner@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Ifeffit digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Question about shift in E0 (Christopher Patridge) 2. Re: Question about shift in E0 (Brandon Reese) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 21:55:25 -0400 From: Christopher Patridge To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] Question about shift in E0 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Brandon, I have a question about your method. You mention that you pick E0 based on the 1st peak of the derivative for each sample then extract chi(k). Have you tried constraining E0 across the set? I have thought that in order to make a good comparison between samples in a set, a common E0 should be chosen in order to replicate closely the background function across the whole set. Constraining may also provide a trend in the fitting. Buena salud, Chris On Jun 6, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Brandon Reese wrote:

Kicaj and Matt,

Thanks for the replies. It is certainly reasonable to ask about the experimental setup, that seems like a good first place to look for oddities. Sorry about using E0 in two different contexts (Athena and Artemis). I'll switch to using E0 for the chosen parameter in Athena's background subtraction and Enot for the guess parameter in Artemis.

I aligned the scans in Athena using the reference foil absorption edge. I ended up shifting the scans in energy by ~1 eV or less based on the reference foil. I then set the E0 parameter in Athena to the peak of the first derivative. This value varied by about 0.5 eV (or less) between the different samples. This is what I considered when I made the statement about not seeing the oxidation change in the XANES. There is a shift of about 4 eV compared to the reference foil, which I would expect because I am looking at oxides.

I then extracted the chi(k) into Artemis, and used the same Feff calculations/paths for each sample. In the Artemis fits I am seeing Enot shifts of 1-2 eV, which is a fair bit larger than the error bars. If I chose E0 at peak of the first derivative the Enot came out to be ~7 eV. Since this seemed a little on the big side, I also tried setting E0 to be the top of the white line, in that case Enot came out to be ~1 eV. The Enot shift between samples was about the same either way. Could an argument be made that there is a small shift in the overall oxidation state of the films, possibly contributing to the changes in the conductivity changes in the films? Does anyone have any references about using Enot shifts in this way?

Scott - The amplitudes of the XANES features are very close. in the normalized spectrum the difference practically 0, and in the derivative the amplitudes are ~5% off. There is bit larger of a difference in amplitude between the samples (in fluorescence) and a pure In2O3 powder (in transmission) of ~10% in the first derivative. The samples are sputtered from oxide sources, so the presence of metallic In should be pretty small. I am interested about your comment on the relative sizes of the first derivative peaks. Comparing my samples to the foil the oxide peak amplitude is bigger than the metal peak by 10% or so. Could this be due to the differences between fluorescence and transmission or not optimizing the experiment to measure the foil? Or could it be due to something else more heinous?

I noticed on individual fits that the dR for the first shell came out nearly the same (2.162 +/- .007 vs. 2.164) on the two samples, while the Enot's had the 1-2 eV shift between the samples. I tried to fit the two types of samples simultaneously while constraining the dR's (and a few 2nd shell parameters) to be equal to each other and letting the Enot's float. The relative Enot values came out close to what they were before. If I let dR values fit independantly, there was no real change present. In other words the multiple data set fit just made my EB's a bit smaller, but the relative shifts stayed about the same.

Would there be some reasonable way in a multi-data set fit to constrain the Enot's?

Brandon

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Matt Newville wrote: HI Brandon,

If I understand right (and to echo Darius's questions), it seems like you measure samples with a metal reference, and aligned the spectra in Athena so that the references matched. That's a fine way to go. I would ask: how big were the needed energy shifts? Are the experimental mu(E) spectra aligned well at this point? If you're studying metal oxides with different oxygen content, you might very well see oxidation in the XANES. If I understand correctly, you're saying you don't see this.

Then, you extracted the chi(k) from the aligned spectra. How much did E0 vary for the shifted spectra in this background-subtraction step?

Then, you pulled these chi(k) into Artemis, and see different E0 shifts in the fits. This E0 is a little different, in that it is the E0 shift applied to the Feff calculation to match the experimental spectra. If you use different paths or different calculations, such E0 shifts might happen, and wouldn't be highly meaningful.

I know that's not a complete answer, but hopefully that and Darius's questions will help,

--Matt

PS on Q2: 1/ (kR)^2 vs 1 / kR^2

This is probably either a typo, or a different convention based on the definition of f(k) as the electron scattering amplitude. In the Feff world, it should be 1/kR^2, but using 1/(kR)^2 would just map f(k) to k*f(k). _______________________________________________ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit

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