ProQEXAFS: a highly optimized parallelized rapid processing software for QEXAFS data

J Synchrotron Radiat. 2020 Mar 1;27(Pt 2):551-557. doi: 10.1107/S1600577519017053. Epub 2020 Feb 7.

Abstract

The high temporal resolution in data acquisition, possible in the quick-scanning EXAFS (QEXAFS) mode of operation, provides new challenges in efficient data processing methods. Here a new approach is developed that combines an easy to use interactive graphical interface with highly optimized and fully parallelized Python-based routines for extracting, normalizing and interpolating oversampled time-resolved XAS spectra from a raw binary stream of data acquired during operando QEXAFS studies. The programs developed are freely available via a Github repository.

Keywords: QEXAFS; X-ray absorption spectroscopy; XAS analysis.