Hi Chris,
Thank you for your suggestion. But I don't have a standard. Also, I
wonder whether a multiple-site situation could be different from the
normal one-site case with respect to S02.
Best,
Yanyun
Quoting Chris Patridge <patri...@buffalo.edu>:
Hi,
One thing that could be considered is transferring the SO2 factor
from a reliable source such as a standard and then use that value in
the fit. Chemical transferability of SO2 to similar systems is often
acceptable. You could also try constraining the value in the fit as
well. SO2 and Debye are also correlated so this may also affect the
value.
Hope that helps,
Chris
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On Mar 19, 2015, at 6:32 PM, huyan...@physics.utoronto.ca wrote:
Hi all,
I know this question has been asked for many times. S02 is expected
to be around, but smaller than 1, a fact that has been explained,
such as in the following previous emails, in our mailing list.
http://www.mail-archive.com/ifeffit%40millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/msg02237.html
http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/pipermail/ifeffit/2003-February/000230.html
However, I am continually get S02 value larger than 1 for a series
of similar samples when I fit data in Artemis. I think my fit is
very good, because my suspected model(based on other technique)
could be verified in XAFS analysis (i.e., defensible in physics),
the statistics is good ( R=0.01, reduced chi-square=31.4,
fit-range:1.5~6 Angstrom, k-range: 3~14 angstrom-1) and all the
parameters such as the bond length, sigma2 are physically
reasonable. The only thing makes me uncomfortable is that parameter
S02 keeps between 1.45 to 1.55 during the fitting.
In my system, the absorber atom occupies two crystallographic
sites. So I built a model with paths generated from two FEFF
calculations. For paths generated from the 1st and 2nd FEFF
calculation, the amplitude parameters are set to be S02*P% and
S02*(1-P%) respectively, where P% is the first site occupancy
percentage. Both S02 and P are free parameters during the fit, and
P is an important conclusion I want to extract from XAFS fitting.
However, the fit result gives me S02=1.45 ~ 1.55 and P=0.51 ~ 0.56
all the time (i.e., for each path the 'total amplitude' S02*P% or
S02*(1-P%) are about 0.7~0.8, smaller than 1). It looks to me that
I got a 'perfect' fit but I am not sure if S02 larger than one is
defensible. So I have to ask:
1) Is my current fit with S02 larger than one reasonable? If not,
what could be suggested to get around it?
2) What's the meaning of S02? It is interpreted in physics that it
is a reduced electron excitation parameter, but is it possible that
S02 will be affected by any experimental condition?
3) Can anyone share whether you had the multiple site system that
gets S02 larger than one?
Looking forward to your help.
Best,
Yanyun
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