Development of pressure-modulated EXAFS method
- Received Date: 2011-05-16
- Accepted Date: 2011-05-31
- Available Online: 2012-02-05
Abstract: Many modulation techniques have been widely applied to improve the quality of conventional spectra. Here a pressure-modulated EXAFS method is proposed to detect the small changes of local structure induced by the modulation of high pressure. In the experiment a dynamic diamond anvil cell was used to put a periodic load on the sample and lock-in amplifier to measure the modulated EXAFS signals. We have applied this technique to ZnSe and revealed a sensitivity to atomic displacement of 0.1 pm that is about ten times better than that of traditional EXAFS.