Advanced x-ray scattering methods for investigation of nanomaterials - NFPL251
Title: Pokročilé rentgenografické rozptylové metody pro výzkum nanomateriálů
Form of teaching: lecture
Guaranteed by: Department of Condensed Matter Physics (32-KFKL)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2022
Duration in semesters: 1
Semester: both
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: 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, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
Note: you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: RNDr. Milan Dopita, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): RNDr. Milan Dopita, Ph.D.
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Annotation -
Advanced X-ray scattering methods suitable for investigation of the morphology, structure, and real structure of nanomaterials. Generalized Debye scattering function, small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS), total scattering - pair distribution function (PDF).
Last update: Mikšová Kateřina, Mgr. (09.06.2022)
Course completion requirements -

Oral and written examination. Written part consists of solution of a simple problem non-requiring long calculation. Oral part follows and it is usually about 45 min.

Last update: Mikšová Kateřina, Mgr. (09.06.2022)
Literature -

B. E. Warren, X-ray diffraction, Dover, New York, 1990.

J. Als-Nielsen and D. McMorrow: Elements of Modern X-Ray Physics, Wiley, 2011.

Ullrich Pietsch, Vaclav Holy, Tilo Baumbach: High-Resolution X-Ray Scattering: From Thin Films to Lateral Nanostructures, Springer, 2004.

T. Egami and S.J.L. Billinge, Underneath the Bragg Peaks Structural Analysis of Complex Materials, Pergamon, 2003.

A. Guinier and G. Fournet, Small-Angle Scattering of X-rays, Wiley, Ney York - London, 1955.

O. Glatter and O. Kratky (eds.), Small-Angle X-ray Scattering, Academic Press, Lodon - New York, 1982.

L.A. Feigin and D.I. Svergun, Structure Analysis by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering, Springer, New York, 1987.

Last update: Mikšová Kateřina, Mgr. (09.06.2022)
Syllabus -

Morphology, structure and real structure of nanoparticles. Simulation and generation of nanoparticle clusters. Magic-sizes clusters.

Generalized Debye scattering function, theory, derivation. Calculation of scattered X-ray intensity for different types and sizes of nanoparticles using DSE.

Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), drazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS), theory and applications. SAXS and GISAXS measurements, processing and evaluation of measured data.

Total scattering - pair distribution function. Theoretical description. Practical aspects of PDF measurement. Laboratory versus synchrotron sources. Application of PDF to various types of nanoparticles.

Last update: Mikšová Kateřina, Mgr. (09.06.2022)