MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES

Course Information
TitleΤΕΧΝΙΚΕΣ ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΙΣΜΟΥ ΥΛΙΚΩΝ / MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES
CodeΜΦΥ663
FacultySciences
SchoolPhysics
Cycle / Level2nd / Postgraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter
CoordinatorPhilomela Komninou
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID40000153

Class Information
Academic Year2018 – 2019
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours8
Class ID
600133565
Digital Course Content
Prerequisites
Required Courses
  • ΜΦΥ666 MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION LABORATORY I
General Competences
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
Course Content (Syllabus)
Crystalline and amorphous states of matter. Symmetry in direct and inverse space, Crystal directions and planes. Periodicity, symmetry point groups and space. Basic types of crystal structures. Equipment for generation of X-rays (tubes, fixed and rotating anodes, storage rings and synchrotron radiation). Detection of X-rays: scintillation counters, solid state counters, imaging screens. X-ray diffraction of single crystals. Identification of unknown materials using crystalline powder diffractometry. Structure factors and electron density function. Data collection and processing. Preliminary phase identification and improvement of crystalline structures.
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures602
Total602
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Εισαγωγή στην κρυσταλλοδομή Κωνσταντίνος Καβούνης σοφία A.E., 2008 256 σελ. ISBN 978-960-6706-14-1
Additional bibliography for study
B.D. Cullity & S.R. Stock Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River (2001) X-Ray Diffraction: A Practical Approach C. Suryanarayana & M. Grant Norton Plenum Press, New York (1998)
Last Update
13-11-2015