[Ifeffit] Converting PDF files to CIF files for usage in Artemis

Tue Aug 9 12:50:30 CDT 2016

This actually results in a bit of inconvenience - if you want to use ATOMS, you have to load some data into Artemis and pretend you want to analyze it.

Another thing for a newbie to beware of - if you have inequivalent sites for your absorbing atom, you have to run ATOMS and FEFF separately for each of these,
then add the resulting spectra in proportion determined by stoichiometry.  If you use a program like Diamond, it tells you the Wyckoff notation (e.g. 12a meaning
that a unit cell has 12 such atoms in it, even though they're specified once).  I think ATOMS can produce a file with each atom listed explicitly (XYZ, I think)
and you could count that.
	mam

On 8/9/2016 10:35 AM, Scott Calvin wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> In case it’s not clear, ATOMS is built in to Artemis. (Long, long ago ATOMS was a separate program, so many people still refer to that functionality of Artemis by that name.)
>
> —Scott Calvin
> Sarah Lawrence College
>
>> On Aug 9, 2016, at 12:40 PM, Matthew Marcus <mamarcus at lbl.gov> wrote:
>>
>> There are two different input files which take the extension .inp.  One is the feff.inp file, which is the input to FEFF and contains a list of
>> coordinates (Cartesian, not crystallographic) of all atoms surrounding an absorpber atom out to a certain distance.  ATOMS produces this.  The other
>> is an input file for ATOMS, which has a subset of the information found in a CIF file.  ATOMS can save this out as well once you fill in the form, and you
>> can thus re-use it if, for instance, you want to re-run ATOMS to produce a feff.inp file for a different site as absorber.  ATOMS is the only program
>> I know that produces FEFF files.
>> 	mam
>>
>> On 8/9/2016 9:26 AM, Ed Han wrote:
>>> I see. Thank you for the insight!
>>>
>>> Is it possible to create the same .inp or .cif file in FEFF6 (or any of the FEFF versions) as well?
>>>
>>> Or is the ATOMS program the most recommended software to perform this task?
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ed Han
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Carlo Segre <segre at iit.edu <mailto:segre at iit.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>    Hi Ed:
>>>
>>>    You do not need to start with a CIF file at all.  All you need is the space group, the lattice constants and the atomic positions.  You can then fillin the blanks for the Atoms program yourself.
>>>
>>>    Carlo
>>>
>>>
>>>    On Mon, 8 Aug 2016, Ed Han wrote:
>>>
>>>        Hello All,
>>>
>>>        I apologize in advance if this is not the correct method to reply to the
>>>        thread.
>>>
>>>        Thank you for your replies and suggestions. I will look further into
>>>        determining the atomic structure of the Hf-Al intermetallics through their
>>>        papers.
>>>
>>>        Once I obtain this information, how do I go about creating the actual CIF
>>>        file? Can I just open up any arbitrary CIF file and then change the
>>>        parameters and name to match that of the Hf-Al systems?
>>>
>>>        Lastly, going through some CIF files from crystallography.net <http://crystallography.net>, I notice
>>>        that some of the 3D models from the CIF has a different stoichiometry from
>>>        the designated crystal. For example, I have attached a CIF file of SiO2
>>>        that I have found; however, the 3D representation only has 1 Silicon atom
>>>        and 1 Oxygen atom. Do you have any insight on this disparity?
>>>
>>>        Regards,
>>>        Ed Han
>>>
>>>
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