Topic outline

  • General

    This course is an introduction for Master's students to Materials Characterization. It is mandatory to all Funtional Materials major students. The maximum amount of students on the course is limited and the FM major students have priority. Note that the course  registration will close before the course starts and all accepted students will get a confirmation.

    Syllabus: In this course first day of week one lecture dedicated to the the theoretical part will be delivered and this will be followed by experimental sessions for rest four days of the week. Following are the topics

    1. X-ray diffraction (XRD)

    2. Transmission Electron Micrscopy TEM

    3. Nanoindentation 

    4. Optical Micrscope

    5. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

    6.Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS)

    7. Electronic Transport (ET)

    8. Raman Spectroscopy

    9. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)

    Welcome

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    The course has contact sessions where analysis methods and data analysis is discussed with equipment experts. You need to prepare to the contact session by self study of the topic beforehand.

    The course has 5 laboratory practices that as least 4 must be attented to pass the course. Each laboratory practice will be run at only one week (due to instrument booking) and students participate only to one group (2h) during that week. The groups will be booked with the course starts and you do not need to be in the same group for each laboratory.

    Tentative timetable for the contact sessions and laboratory works

    (will be updated when confirmed)

    Week

    Contact session Date

    Contact session

    Laboratory

    Pre-assignment

    37

    13.9

    Introduction to different methods (+ exam questions)

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    		     XRD Pre-task

    38

    20.9

    		 XRD
    		                 XRD
    		     TEM Pre-task

    39

    27.9

    		 TEM
    		 Nanoindentation
          Pre-task

    40

    4.10

    		 Nanoindentation
    		   Nanoindentation
    		 Optical Microscopy
         Pre-task

    41

    11.10

    		 Optical Microscopy (OM)
    		SEM Pre-task

    42

    18.10

    SEM

    SEM+OM

    EDS Pre-task

    43

    exam week

     -

     -

    -

    44

    1.11

    		 EDS
    		    Electronic Transport Pre-task

    45

    8.11

    		 Electronic Transport (ET)
    		  Electronic Transport
    		 Raman Pre-task

    46

    15.11

    		 Raman
    		        Raman Lab
    		    XPS Pre-task

    47

    22.11

    		 XPS
    		       
    		  Auger and SIMS
           Pre-task

    48

    29.11

    Auger and SIMS +

    Course summary

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    49

     

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    Oral exam slots (30.11)

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    50

     

    exam week

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    Oral exam slots (30.11, 1.12 and 3.12)

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