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Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Methods of Material Characterization

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 480-4027/01
Abbreviation MAM
Course title Methods of Material Characterization
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Physics
Course coordinator Ing. Lucie Gembalová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. X-ray diffraction
2. scanning and transmission electron microscopy
3. atomic and magnetic force microscopy
4. vibrating magnetometry
5. magneto-optical methods
6. nuclear spectroscopic methods (Mossbauer spectroscopy)

E-learning

Literature

TUMAŃSKI, Sławomir. Handbook of magnetic measurements. Series in sensors. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2011]. ISBN 978-1-4398-2951-6.

BRANDON, David; KAPLAN, Wayne D. Microstructural characterization of materials. John Wiley & Sons, 2013. ISBN: 9-780470-027844 .

EGERTON, R. Physical principles of electron microscopy: an introduction to TEM, SEM, and AEM. New York: Springer, c2005. ISBN 0-387-25800-0.

Advised literature

Papers in scientific journals focused on microstructural and magnetic properties of materials like Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Materials Characterization, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials or Materials.