Hi Varadarajan,
I am by no means an expert but here are a few things I noticed
& changes I made.
In regards to your fitting, from what I can see, you haven’t
defined separate delrs & ss for each path that you want to use.
Assuming the artemis file was for Cd80Ca20O, I’ve
made the following changes:
tweaked your feff.inp file to add 2 Ca in the second shell (as
suggested by Matt)
Introduced separate delr and ss for Cd-Cd and Cd-Ca paths
k-range of 3.2-16; dk = 0.6
R-range of 1.4-3.6; dr = 0.7
Changed fitting space to R
Visually the fit seems a lot better with these changes though
you would be in a better position to judge if the actual numbers seem
realistic. You could probably make the fit a bit better by introducing some
constrains (ss_Cd = ss_Ca maybe) and floating the coordination number for the
NNN Cd and Ca rather than leaving it fixed at 10 & 2.
Hope that helps.
Zohair
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Sridharan
Sent: Tuesday, 6 July 2010 10:29 PM
To: ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov
Subject: [Ifeffit] Clarification needed on the structured 2nn peak
Greetings
to all
I am a beginner to EXAFS.
Recently I had carried out Cd K-edge EXAFS measurements on Cd1-xCaxO
solid solution. The end members CdO and CaO belong to same crystal structure
Fm-3m.
I had analysed the spectrum with Atthena and fitted with Arthemis. I am
attaching the Athena project file (***.prj) and that of Arthemis project file
(***.apr) for your reference.
Athena:
As per the crystal structure of CdO, the first nearest neighbour is at 2.345 A
corresponding to Cd-O1 inter atomic distance and 2nn distance is 3.3.16 A
corresponding to Cd-Cd1 inter atomic distance. Though I am able get the first
peak in chi(R) plot at expected position, I am having some problems for the
second peak. The second peak has features; main one and a shoulder. The main
peak itself appears at lower R compared to expected one. Intensity of the
shoulder increases with Ca substitution at the expense of main peak itself.
Can
any one comment on this?
My
predicament: If I associate, based on the structure of second peak, bimodal
distribution for the Cd-Cd1 interatomic distance, the difference of 0.4 A is
11%. This value gives me an uneasy feeling. Is it possible to accommodate this
difference within the setting of F m-3m?
OR
It is due the multi scattering is the problem?
Arthemis:
For
CdO: The k^3 weighted chi fitting, I agree is far from satisfaction. Std
of delR is a bothering point. I had included 20 paths. Even for the CdO with F
m-3m, the calculated second peak has a shoulder at lower R. I could see a small
contribution from path 4. But I am not sure if that is all.
How
to float the individual GDS parameter for each and every path? What can be done
to improve the fitting?
Thanking
you all in advance
Varadarajan
Sridharan
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