Acronyms

Compendium of XAFS beamlines

• BioXAS: XAS applied to biomolecules
• DAFS: Diffraction Anomalous Fine Structure
• EXAFS: Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure
• GIXAFS or GIXAS: Grazing incidence XAFS or XAS (related to RefleXAFS) 
• MicroXAS: XAS with high spatial resolution
• MAD: Multiwavelength Anomalous Diffraction
• NEXAFS: Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (same as XANES, which is more commonly used for hard X-rays)
• PES: PhotoEmission Spectroscopy
• RefleXAFS (or ReflEXAFS): Reflection XAFS (related to GIXAFS)
• RIXS: Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering
• XANES: X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure (same as NEXAFS, which is more commonly used for soft X-rays)
• XAS: X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (includes both XANES and EXAFS)
• XEOL: X-ray Excited Optical Luminescence
• XES: X-ray Emission Spectroscopy
• XMCD: X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism
• XMLD: X-ray Magnetic Linear Dichroism
• XRD: X-ray Diffraction
• XSW: X-ray Standing Waves