Contributors

MsSpec has benefited from the help of many people. Its core results from the long-term collaboration of D. Sébilleau (Université de Rennes-1, France) with C. R. Natoli (LNFINFN, Italy). More specifically, cluster gen.f and the various versions of spec.f have been written by D. Sébilleau1 while phagen scf.f is due to C. R. Natoli. Other contributions have been made possible through several joint CNRS/Chinese Academy of Sciences projects with Z.- Y. Wu’s group at the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility and at the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory in Hefei (China). MsSpec has also benefited from the post-doctoral grant awarded to K. Hatada by the Région Bretagne, and from the four year LighTnet European network. Currently, MsSpec is part of the FP7-funded European network MSNano and of the COST-funded European action EUSpec.

The other contributors are:

  • D. Agliz (Université Ibnou-Zohr, Agadir, Morocco): contribution to the implementation of the Rehr-Albers method

  • M. Gavaza (City University, Hong Kong): symmetrized form of the multiple scattering series

  • F. Da Pieve (Università di Roma 3): implementation of the Auger case into phagen scf.f and contribution to the implementation of the APECS cross-section

  • K. Hatada (LNF-INFN, Italy): help to write up the makefile that generates the spec.f code and implementation of the parallel version. Implementation of the non muffin-tin routines into phagen scf.f and into spec.f.

  • H.F. Zhao (BSRF, Beijing, China and Université de Rennes-1, France): correlation expansion.

  • J.-Y. Wang (BSRF, Beijing, China): Graphical User Interface.

  • E.-R. Li (BSRF, Beijing, China): Graphical User Interface.

  • L. Frein (Université de Rennes-1, France): artwork for the Graphical User Interface.

  • A. Carré (Université de Rennes-1, France): previous Website

  • P. Le Meur (Université de Rennes-1, France): Python interface

  • S. Tricot (Université de Rennes-1, France): Python interface, website, online tutorials and documentation

  • P. Schieffer (Université de Rennes-1, France): XPD related improvements

The package has also benefited from many users and colleagues who pointed out bugs or suggested improvements or new features. Among them, S. Ababou-Girard, B. Lépine, Y. Lu, T. Jaouen and P. Schieffer (Université de Rennes-1, France), F. Scheurer (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France), P. Wetzel (Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, France), R. Belkhou (SOLEIL, France), M. Zanouni (Université de Tanger, Maroc), A. Souissi (Université de Bizerte, Tunisie), R. Gunnella (Università di Camerino, Italy) and J. Osterwalder (Université de Zürich, Switzerland). The empty sphere features have been tested with the help of K. Kuroda and S. Tadano (Chiba university, Japan).

Work on the next version (version 2.0) is currently under development by:

  • D. Sébilleau (Université de Rennes-1, France): lead development

  • C. R. Natoli (LNF-INFN, Italy): new features in phagen scf.f (scalar-relativistic, impact parameter representation, EELS and (e,2e) radial integrals, …) and interface with VASP electronic structure code

  • K. Hatada (Université de Rennes-1, France): BEEM spectroscopy, interface with VASP electronic structure code

  • H.-F. Zhao (BSRF, Beijing, China): REXS spectroscopy

  • J.-Q. Xu (NSRL, Hefei, China): EELS spectroscopy, interface with VASP electronic structure code

  • W.-S. Chu (NSRL, Hefei, China): portage to Windows operating system (through Cygwin)

  • R. Choubisa (BITS, Pilani, India): (e,2e) spectroscopy

  • P. Krüger (Chiba university, Japan): interface with VASP electronic structure code

  • A. Calvez (Université de Rennes-1, France): optimization loop

  • T. Balège and L. Strafella (Université de Rennes-1, France): portage to Fortran 90

  • S. Tricot (Université de Rennes-1, France): Python interface, website, online tutorials and documentation, graphical user interface

  • P. Schieffer (Université de Rennes-1, France): XPD related improvements

  • G. Raffy ( Université de Rennes-1, France): Graphical user interface