Advanced X-Ray Microscopy, NAFY012
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Advanced X-Ray Microscopy, 7.5 credits
given by the Department of Physics.
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Contents
Introduction to x-rays: nature, properties, generation, interactions with matter.
Introduction to microscopy: advancements, sensitivity, resolution, contrast, field of view and time-domain.
Incoherent x-ray microscopy methods: tomography, scanning fluorescence microscopy, scanning diffraction microscopy, PEEM and STXM.
Coherent x-ray microscopy methods: scanning x-ray diffraction microscopy, Holography, coherent diffraction imaging and ptychography.
Microscopy applied to specific materials: magnetic materials, magnetic holography, neutron tomography, microscopy applied to semiconductor nanostructures and biological materials.
Syllabus
NAFY012-Eng.pdf Download NAFY012-Eng.pdf
General information
There are currently no scheduled instances of this course.
- Semester: Not applicable
- Study period: Not applicable
- Level: PhD studies.
- Language: English.
- Forms of teaching: lectures, laboratory sessions, and project.
- Assessment: oral exam on content of lectures, seminar project, and lab practice.
- Grading scale: Fail, Pass (U, G).
Course literature
Lecture scripts & complementary literature handed out at the lectures.
Course responsible
Jesper Wallentin, jesper.wallentin@sljus.lu.se
Entry requirements
For admission to the course 90 credits in the natural sciences are required. Modern Physics 3, Quantum Physics, 30 credits, or the equivalent is required as well as English B.
Registration
Sign up for the course by contacting course responsible and studentadministration@fysik.lu.se.
Remember that you need to have the course listed in your individual study plan (ISP) or approved by your supervisor to have it counted towards your exam.
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