Bruce, Thanks very much for you quick response. I went to C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib\Demeter\UI\Hephaestus\Formulas.pm and changed line 176. I did a test and it worked. There is a small thing that still needs to be fixed, though. When I selected Morality, the unit did not change from "g/cm^3" to "mol/L". For future Hephaestus users who are not aware of our conversation, the unit might be a little be confusing. It would be great if you can help change that in the next release. Thanks, Guanghui 发件人：Bruce Ravel 发送时间：2015-06-22 10:35 主题：Re: [Ifeffit] Hephaestus edge step calculation 收件人："XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit" 抄送： Guanghui, Thanks for the helpful bug report. Turns out to be a silly typo. It's fixed at the head of the github repository and will be in the next windows installer. If you cannot wait, it is a trivial fix. See: https://github.com/bruceravel/demeter/blob/master/lib/Demeter/UI/Hephaestus/... On your computer, you can replace the file C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib\Demeter\UI\Hephaestus\Formulas.pm or edit it to change line 176, which says $density *= $parent->{density}; to $density *= $parent->{density}->GetValue; Cheers, B On 06/18/2015 03:01 PM, Guanghui Zhang wrote:

Hello, Bruce. Thanks very much for writing and keeping upgrading the amazing software. I was mainly doing homogeneous catalysis, so most of my samples were solution samples. I found that it was quite convienent to calculate the absoption length and edge step using the old version Hephaestus (ifeffit 1.2.11). Simply go to the Formulas tab, choose Molarity, type in the formula, molarity, and energy. The calculation results will show up after clicking the Compute button. For example, if I type in the Formula as Pt, molarity as 0.03 mol/L and Energy as 11564 eV (Pt L3 edge), the calculation results showed as follows: element number barns/atom cm^2/gm --------- ---------------------------------- Pt 1.000 63044.107 194.641 This weighs 195.090 amu. Absorbtion length = 0.878 cm at 11564.00 eV for a 0.03 molar sample. Unit edge step length at Pt L3 edge (11564.0 eV) is 15108.1 microns

Remember that a molarity calculation only considers the absorption of the solute. The solvent also absorbs. The Elam database and the total cross-sections were used in the calculation. However, in the new version Hephaestus (Demeter 0.9.22, trial version 4, Windows 8 64 bit). It does not work. If I type the same informaiton, Pt, 0.03 mol/L, 11564 eV. The following results showed up.

element number barns/atom cm^2/gm

--------- ----------------------------------

Pt 1.000 63044.107 194.641

This weighs 195.090 amu.

Absorption length = *0.0 micron* at 11564 eV for a 0.03

molar sample.

Unit edge step length at Pt L3 edge (11564.0 eV) is

*0.0 microns*

Remember that a molarity calculation only considers

the absorption of the solute. The solvent also

absorbs.

The Elam database and the full cross-sections were

used in the calculation.

If I do the calculation for the solid samples using "density" instead of "Molarity", the calculation worked fine. I am wondering if there is any problem with my softwar and/or laptop, or there is a missing function in the new version Hephaestus. Thanks Guanghui 2015-06-18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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