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Courses » Fundamentals of X-ray diffraction and Transmission electron microscopy

Fundamentals of X-ray diffraction and Transmission electron microscopy

ABOUT THE COURSE

It is a first course at the under graduate level on microstructural characterization of materials. This course will cover the basic principles and techniques of X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy along with demonstrations of the instrument details and imaging experiments through videos.  This course also deals with the sample preparation techniques for the microstructural analysis with practical examples through videos.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

    Undergraduate students of Metallurgical and Materials, Physics, Chemistry and biological sciences.

    INDUSTRY SUPPORT – LIST OF COMPANIES/INDUSTRY THAT WILL RECOGNIZE/VALUE THIS ONLINE COURSE

    All the Metallurgical and automotive industries will be interested in this course.




    687 students have enrolled already!!

    COURSE INSTRUCTOR


    Dr. S. Sankaran is presently Associate Professor in the department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras. His research interests are deformation processing of materials, mechanical behavior of materials and electron microscopy. He is also presently the faculty in-charge of central electron microscopy of IIT Madras.

    MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE COURSE

    Course url: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc16_mm06
    Course duration : 08 weeks
    Start date and end date of course: 18 July 2016 - 9 September 2016
    Dates of exams :          18 September 2016 & 25 September 2016
    Time of exam : 2pm - 5pm
    Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form.
    Exam registration url - Will be announced shortly
    Exam Fee:     The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee of approximately Rs 1000(non-Programming)/1250(Programming) needs to be paid.

    CERTIFICATE

    E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam. It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras.
    It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc
    COURSE LAYOUT

    Week 1
    1. Fundamentals of X-ray scattering
    2. Bragg’s law derivation and the factors affecting the intensity
    Week 2
    3. Crystallite size, effect of strain on the intensity
    Week 3
    4. Profile fit, indexing, peak broadening
    5. Quantitative analysis, residual stress analysis
    Week 4
    6. Instrumentation details and demo experiments
    Week 5
    7. Introduction to transmission electron microscopy
    Week 6
    8. Diffraction and image formation
    Week 7
    9. Various imaging techniques and spectroscopy
    Week 8
    10. Sample preparation and applications
    11. Instrumentation details and demo experiments

    REFERENCE BOOKS

    1.    ‘Elements of X-ray diffraction’ B.D. Cullity and S.R. Stock, 2001, Prentice Hall, Inc. USA
    2.    ‘Transmission electron microscopy” D.B. Williams and C. Barry Carter, 4 volumes, Springer, 1996. USA