[Ifeffit] How to distinguish whether the coordination element is heavy or light
Bruce Ravel
bravel at bnl.gov
Wed Jul 2 12:38:46 CDT 2014
On 07/02/2014 01:06 PM, ZHAN Fei wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> when I try to solve my question{*[Ifeffit] path contribution to fit in
> low R-space position, but the fit bond length is much longer than
> that*},I find a method from Prof.Calvin to distinguish whether
> coordination shell is composed by light or heavy element:
>
> http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/pipermail/ifeffit/2007-December/007983.html
>
> A clue can perhaps be obtained by noting the relative height of the
> peak near 2.3 angstroms compared with the large peak you've fit. As k-
> weight is raised from 0 to 1 to 2 to 3, the peak at 2.3 angstroms
> does not grow relative to the first peak. That suggests the scattering
> may be from another low-Z element like oxygen.
>
> But I still don't know ,why it works.
Hi Zhanfei,
First off, I am very pleased to see that you are using the archive of
the mailing list as a learning resource. Well done! Lots of questions
have been answered here over the years!
On this page, http://xafs.org/Tutorials, you will find a link to a
document by Matt called "The Fundamentals of XAFS". Look at figure 3.3
on page 15. It's a plot of the back-scattering amplitudes of three
different elements.
As you can see, they have very different behavior as a function of k.
Light things don't scatter very strongly at high k whereas heavy element do.
When you change the k-weight, you change how strongly the different
regions contribute to the Fourier transform. If you have different
elements contributing to the spectrum, then changing the k-weight may
give you a way of emphasizing one contribution over another.
HTH,
B
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