Design criteria for a laboratory EXAFS facility

There has recently been an increased amount of interest in laboratory equipment for extended X-ray absorption fine-structure (EXAFS) measurements. In an earlier paper a facility for performing such measurements easily in a few hours was described in some detail. In this paper, further development of the techniques is reported. The use of high-power rotating-anode X-ray generator, the design of an X-ray curved-crystal spectrometer, the factors governing the proper choice of monochromator crystals and the design of fast-counting detectors and electronics are discussed. In addition, it is shown how errors caused by characteristic lines in the spectrum can be eliminated by use of a flux stabilization circuit.