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Course, academic year 2026/2027
   
Electron Microscopy - NFPL115
Title: Elektronová mikroskopie
Form of teaching: lecture
Guaranteed by: Department of Physics of Materials (32-KFM)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2020
Duration in semesters: 1
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Miroslav Cieslar, CSc.
Teacher(s): doc. RNDr. Miroslav Cieslar, CSc.
RNDr. Michaela Šlapáková, Ph.D.
Classification: Physics > Solid State Physics
Is co-requisite for: NFPL116
Annotation -
Principles of transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Kinematical and dynamic theory of high energy electron diffraction, dynamic contrast theory of lattice defects. High resolution transmission electron microscopy. Convergent beam electron diffraction. Analytical methods in TEM. Stereographic projection. For 1st, 2nd year NMgr. FKSM and PGDS.
Last update: Pešička Josef, doc. RNDr., CSc. (24.06.2026)
Course completion requirements - Czech

Úspěšné složení ústní zkoušky.

Last update: Cieslar Miroslav, doc. RNDr., CSc. (14.05.2019)
Literature - Czech

Bohumil Smola: Transmisní elektronová mikroskopie ve fyzice pevných látek, skriptum SPN, Praha 1983.

Miroslav Karlík: Úvod do transmisní elektronové mikroskopie, ČVUT, Praha 2011.

David B. Williams, C. Barry Carter: Transmission Electron Microscopy, A Textbook for Materials Science, Springer, 2009.

Last update: Šlapáková Michaela, RNDr., Ph.D. (04.06.2026)
Course assessment methods and requirements for successful completion, grading scheme - Czech

Otázky ústní zkoušky se shodují se zněním sylabu.

Last update: Cieslar Miroslav, doc. RNDr., CSc. (14.05.2019)
Syllabus -

1. Construction of a transmission electron microscope. Electron source, lenses, detectors, and vacuum system.

2. Interaction of electrons with matter, elastic and inelastic scattering, coherent and incoherent scattering. Electrons in a magnetic field.

3. TEM samples preparation.

4. Kinematical theory of diffraction. Wave-mechanical formulation of fast electrons in a periodic potential, Born approximation, high-energy electron approximation, extinction distance, Bragg position deviation, the intensity of the diffracted beam, limitations of kinematical approximation, structure and shape factor, and the amplitude diffracted by a distorted crystal.

5. Dynamical theory of diffraction. Wave-optical and wave-mechanical formulation, equivalence of the two formulations of the dynamical theory, symmetry of the Bloch waves, two-beam approximation, phenomenological treatment of normal and anomalous absorption, introduction to the many-beam theory of diffraction, systematic reflections, and multilayers.

6. The matrix formulation of electron diffraction theory and the treatment of the many-beam effects, general matrix formulation of many-beam theory for imperfect crystals, contrast at planar faults, stacking faults, antiphase boundaries, grain and phase boundaries, dislocation contrast, dislocation contrast in real crystals, contrast on particles and precipitates.

7. High-resolution TEM. Phase contrast, transfer function in electron microscopy, Scherzer focus, and simulations of lattice images.

8. Selected area diffraction and microdiffraction, convergent beam electron diffraction, ZOLZ and HOLZ in CBED, determination of specimen thickness and extinction depth from CBED.

9. Analytical electron microscopy, EDS, EELS. Introduction to scanning transmission electron microscopy.

10. Stereographic projection. Basic principles, determination of crystal orientation, determination of subgrain misorientation, and determination of Burgers vector of a dislocation.

Last update: Šlapáková Michaela, RNDr., Ph.D. (04.06.2026)
 
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