Criteria for automatic x-ray absorption fine structure background removal
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 52 (8), 5024-5031
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.329444
Abstract
Criteria for terminating smoothing to remove a cubic spline background from the x-ray absorption coefficient are stated in terms of three parameters obtained from the k3 weighted Fourier transform of the resulting x-ray absorption fine structure data. The three parameters are HR, the average value of the transform magnitude between 0 and 0.25 Å, HM, the maximum value in the transform magnitude between 1 and 5 Å, and HN, the average value of the transform magnitude between 9 and 10 Å. The termination criteria are HR−HN ⩾0.05HM; or if HN ≳0.1HM, then HR ⩾0.1HM. The incorporation of the criteria into a computer program to facilitate automatic background removal is discussed. Examples of application of the technique to copper, β-PtO2, and ferritin samples are presented.Keywords
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