Tutorials

Tutorials on X-ray absorption and related spectroscopies. See also https://xafs.xrayabsorption.org/tutorials.html.

There are many tutorial resources available on-line. Many of these may be from Training Workshops and Short Courses and so may change over time. A partial list of external websites with introductory and tutorial pages on XAFS

Some slides from oral presentations hosted here (PDF format except where noted):

  • XAFS Overview from Matt Newville, University of Chicago. Slides from an overview of XAFS.
  • Fundamentals of XAFS from Matt Newville, University of Chicago. A longer (~40 page) writeup of notes and discussion of the basics of XAFS.
  • Basics of EXAFS Processing from Shelly Kelly, UOP. Introducing the basics of processing chi(k) data in Athena.
  • Basics of EXAFS Data Analysis from Shelly Kelly, UOP. Introducing the basics of modeling EXAFS spectra in Artemis.
  • Introduction to XAFS from Yaning Xie, Senior Researcher at Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility (BSRF) and Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China.