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EXAFS Phase Shifts

EXAFS Phase Shifts

This short presentation motivates why the Fourier transform of the EXAFS chi(k) function always displays the near-neighbor peak at a value about 1/2 Angstrom shorter than the known structure.

Bruce Ravel

May 02, 2018
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  1. EXAFS Phase Shifts Bruce Ravel Synchrotron Science Group National Institute

    of Standards and Technology & Beamline for Materials Measurements National Synchrotron Light Source II May 1, 2018 1 / 6 EXAFS Phase Shifts
  2. The EXAFS Phase Shift in Hematite Here is ˜ χ(R)

    for hematite, Fe2 O3 . Hematite has a known crystal structure∗ with Fe in a six-coordinated oxygen octahedron. There are 3 near neighbor oxygen atoms at 1.95 ˚ A and 3 others 2.12 ˚ A. Why is the first peak in ˜ χ(R) at about 1.4 ˚ A when the nearest neighbor is at 1.95 ˚ A? 2 / 6 EXAFS Phase Shifts ∗R.L. Blake, R.E. Hessevick, T. Zoltai, L.W. Finger American Mineralogist 51 (1966) 123-129, Refinement of the hemtatite structure
  3. EXAFS Equation Here’s the EXAFS equation: χ(k, Γ) = (NΓ

    S2 0 )FΓ (k)e−2σ2 Γ k2 e−2RΓ/λ(k) 2 kR2 Γ sin (2kRΓ + ΦΓ (k)) (1) χtheory (k) = Γ χ(k, Γ) (2) RΓ = R0,Γ + ∆RΓ (3) k = 2me (E0 − ∆E0 )/ 2 ≈ (E0 − ∆E0 )/3.81 (4) The oscillatory term is a function not of 2kR, but of 2kR + Φ(k). The integral that makes ˜ χ(R) is usually done over 2k, i.e. ˜ χ(R) = d(2k) kkw · χ(k). This makes ˜ χ(R) look somewhat like a radial distribution function with peaks near sensible values of R (half-path-length), rather than 2R (full-path-length). 3 / 6 EXAFS Phase Shifts
  4. Scattering Amplitues and Phase Shifts Remember that the complex scattering

    function (for which F(k) is the amplitude and Φ(k) is the phase) is structured and Z-dependent. Here are some representative examples for elements from different rows of the periodic table. FΓ (k) ΦΓ (k) Very heavy elements have a discontinuity in Φ(k), like Pb at about 5.5 ˚ A−1. Lighter scatterers, like O and Fe, have fairly smooth phase functions. 4 / 6 EXAFS Phase Shifts These figures are from Matt Newville’s Fundamentals of X-ray Absorption Fine Structure
  5. Examining the Phase Function The phase functions for the lighter

    elements are valued near 0 at k = 0 ˚ A−1 and decrease to almost 20 at k = 20 ˚ A−1. To some level of approximation, these phase functions can be described by a line of slope -1, i.e. Φ(k) ≈ −1 · k Using that crude approximation, the oscillatory term of the EXAFS equation is sin(2kR − k) = sin 2k · (R − 1 2 ) . When the integral is done over d(2k), the first peak in the resulting ˜ χ(R) shows up around (R-1 2 ) ˚ A. 5 / 6 EXAFS Phase Shifts
  6. This is why the first peak is shifted inward Obviously,

    the approximation of Φ(k) as a straight line is inaccurate. The peak shift is not exactly 1 2 ˚ A. And for heavier scatterers, the approximation is even worse. But this explains in a hand-waving sense why the peaks are shifted to lower R in ˜ χ(R). This is yet another reason why ˜ χ(R) is NOT a radial distribution function. 6 / 6 EXAFS Phase Shifts