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Required Text(s)
Y. Leng, Materials Characterization: Introduction to Microscopic and Spectroscopic Methods, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2008.
Y. Waseda, E. Matsubara, and K. Shinoda, X-ray Diffraction Crystallography, Springer, New York, 2011.
D.C. Van Aken and W.F. Hosford, Reporting Results, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2008.
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HANDOUTS
Syllabus
(tentative)
Ethics
in Engineering
LESSONS/LECTURES
0. GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION (Added 8/24/2011)
1. INTRODUCTION TO MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION (8/24/2011)
OPTICAL MICROSCOPY
2. PRINCIPLES OF OPTICAL MICROSCOPY (8/29/2011)
3. COMPONENTS IN AN OPTICAL MICROSCOPE (8/29/2011)
4. METALLOGRAPHY (Updated 8/31/2011)
5. OPTICAL MICROSCOPE AND IMAGING MODES (8/29/2011)
X-RAY DIFFRACTION AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
6. PROPERTIES OF X-RAYS (Updated 8/31/2011)
7. CRYSTAL GEOMETRY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, PART 1 (8/29/2011)
8. LATTICE PLANES AND DIRECTIONS (8/31/2011)
9. STEREOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS (updated 10/10/2011)
10. CRYSTAL GEOMETRY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, PART 1 (updated 10/10/2011)
11. CRYSTAL GEOMETRY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, PART 2 (updated 10/17/2011)
12. SPACE GROUPS AND SPACE GROUP NOTATION, PART 3 (modified 10/21/2011)
13. SPACE GROUPS AND SPACE GROUP NOTATION, PART 4 (updated 10/21/2011)
14. INTERNATIONAL TABLES FOR CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND REPRESENTATION OF SPACE GROUPS (added 10/21/2011)
15. RECIPROCAL LATTICES AND DIFFRACTION (updated 10/21/2011)
16. X-RAY SCATTERING AND DIFFRACTION (added 11/14/2011)
17. INTERACTIONS BETWEEN X-RAYS AND MATTER (added 11/14/2011)
18. THE STRUCTURE FACTOR (added 11/14/2011)
19. INTENSITY OF THE DIFFRACTED X-RAY BEAM (added 11/14/2011)
20. COMPONENTS IN AN X-RAY DIFFRACTOMETER (added 11/14/2011)
ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND SPECTROSCOPY
21. ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY (added 11/27/2011)
22. TIPS ON TECHNICAL WRITING (added 11/27/2011)
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LABORATORY/EXPERIMENTAL MODULES
0. METALLOGRAPHY OF MATERIALS (8/24/11)
NOTE: For labs 1 and 2 all lab groups will collect XRD patterns for the following cubic and non-cubic crystals:
Cubic: Cr, Al, MgO, TiN, Ni, Si, Cu, MgAl2O4
Non-cubic: Mg, Zn, AlN, Ti, B (rhombohedral)
1. X-RAY DATA COLLECTION AND INDEXING; Cubic Material (10/21/2011)
Lab 1 PowerPoint viewgraphs (11/2/2011)
2. X-RAY DATA COLLECTION AND INDEXING; Non-cubic Material (10/21/2011)
Lab 2 PowerPoint viewgraphs (11/2/2011)
3. PRECISE LATTICE PARAMETER DETERMINATION
4. PHASE DIAGRAM DETERMINATION (Application of Lab #3)
5. CRYSTALLITE SIZE AND LATTICE STRAIN
6. RESIDUAL STRESS DETERMINATION
7. QUANTITATIVE PHASE IDENTIFICATION IN POWDER MIXTURES
8. IDENTIFICATION OF UNKNOWN CRYSTALS VIA X-RAY DIFFRACTION
9. USE OF SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY
10. FINAL PROJECT
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HOMEWORK
3. Solution to Problem #3 - [111] stereographic projection (10/14/11)
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MANUALS AND LAB AIDS
Template for Lab Reports
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WEB RESOURCES
Annotated
Physics Encyclopedia (Crystallography & Structure of
Solids)
Interdisciplinary Centre for Electron Microscopy (CIME)
International Center
for Diffraction Data (ICDD)
JEOL - Scanning Electron Microscopy Guide pdf (local pdf)
FEI - Introduction to Electron Microscopy pdf
LECO - Metallography Principles and
Procedures
pdf
Introduction to
XRD Course at UNM
USGS Lab
Manual for Powder X-ray Diffraction
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