Hi Gemma, I don't know what that error message from Feff means either, so I am forwarding this along to the Ifeffit mailing list in hopes that someone else -- maybe someone from John's group -- can explain. If I had to guess, I would say that there was a problem constructing the muffin tins either because the atom list is so short or because the atoms are too far apart. The muffin tin algorithm does presume that the atoms will not be separated by unphysically large distances, as the last three atoms in your list are. It would seem that you are using some version of Feff8 -- is that correct? It woul have been helpful had you identified the version of Feff you are using and had you captured the screen output from Feff to a file. It usually helps you receive the answer you are looking for if you provide as much context as possible. B ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Feff calc Date: Thursday 05 June 2008 From: "Gemma Guilera" To: bravel@anl.gov Dear Bruce, I was trying to run a FEFF calculation (herein attached) and I got a message telling me to ask you to INCREASE NOVP. To be honest, I don't know what is this and why it could not run (maybe there is something wrong on the feff.inp file or maybe it is correct that I need to increase such 'NOVP'), but here I am. I would be really grateful if you could give me a hand so I can continue with my calculations. Thanks a lot and have a nice day, Gemma * This feff6 input file was generated by Atoms 3.0.1 * Atoms written by and copyright (c) Bruce Ravel, 1998-2001 * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * * total mu*x=1: 500.60 microns, unit edge step: 622.91 microns * specific gravity = 0.620 * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * * Normalization correction: 0.00020 ang^2 * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * * ----------------------------------------------------------------- * The following crystallographic data were used: * * title [Rh(CO)2ClO] * space = P 21/c * a = 9.3680 b = 13.410 c = 18.2710 * alpha = 90.0 beta = 100.840 gamma = 90.0 * core = Rh1 edge = K * atoms * ! elem x y z tag occ * Cl -0.04060 0.19680 0.13880 Cl1 1.00000 * C 0.20930 0.30400 0.12200 C1 1.00000 * C 0.38680 0.16870 0.12690 C2 1.00000 * O 0.20900 0.39270 0.11250 O1 1.00000 * O 0.51520 0.16150 0.12900 O2 1.00000 * O 0.19020 0.02390 0.13770 O3 1.00000 * Rh 0.20210 0.17610 0.13090 Rh1 1.00000 * ----------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE [Rh(CO)2ClO] * Rh K edge (23220.0 eV), second number is S0^2 EDGE K S02 1.0 * pot xsph fms paths genfmt ff2chi CONTROL 1 1 1 1 1 1 PRINT 1 0 0 0 0 3 *** ixc=0 means to use Hedin-Lundqvist * ixc [ Vr Vi ] EXCHANGE 0 * r_scf [ l_scf n_scf ca ] SCF 4.0 1 RMAX 7.0 EXAFS POTENTIALS * ipot Z element 0 45 Rh 1 17 Cl 2 6 C 3 8 O ATOMS * this list contains 10 atoms * x y z ipot tag distance 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0 Rh1 0.00000 0.06625 -1.71514 -0.17530 2 C1_1 1.72535 1.69939 0.09923 -0.39849 2 C2_1 1.74830 -0.10949 2.04100 0.14521 3 O3_1 2.04909 -2.23304 -0.27759 0.57193 1 Cl1_1 2.32177 0.06349 -2.90461 -0.34834 3 O1_1 2.92611 2.88078 0.19579 -0.58634 3 O2_1 2.94636 -3.60949 2.68200 -4.21643 3 O3_2 6.16440 -6.32006 0.19579 1.17547 3 O2_2 6.43142 -1.48594 5.00059 -4.64316 1 Cl1_2 6.98376 END ------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 My homepage: http://xafs.org/BruceRavel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/