WinXAS: A new software package not only for the analysis of energy-dispersive XAS data

A new software package particularly adapted to the demands of energy-dispersive XAS (DXAS) and time resolved XAS experiments is introduced Owing to the dispersive set-up and the employed measuring procedure, treatment of dispersive XAS data requires a series of additional steps compared to conventional XAS data reduction. WinXAS is running under MS-WINDOWS(R) and contains some unique features in terms of a user friendly graphical environment, energy calibration of dispersive XAS data and the capabilities to process a large number of consecutive absorption spectra Since the number of absorption spectra measured during a single time-resolved experiment on amount to several hundreds, WinXAS allows to record single data reduction steps and to apply the obtained series on each absorption spectrum of one experiment. Additionally, WinXAS contains a large number of numerical functions, including conventional XAS data reduction including a complete FEFF [5] interface, smoothing, glitch removal, least-squares refinement, etc.