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Electron Diffraction - NEVF136
Title: Elektronová difrakce
Guaranteed by: Department of Surface and Plasma Science (32-KFPP)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2005 to 2019
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Karel Mašek, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: T_KEVF (16.05.2005)
Structure of solids, basics of crystallography, elements of symmetry, surface and bulk crystal lattices, crystal systems, Miller indices. Theory of electron diffraction, geometrical and structure factor, reciprocal lattice, Ewald's construction, evaluation of diffraction patterns. Transmission electron microscopy and diffraction, LEED, RHEED, XPD. Application of electron diffraction in thin film physics.
Literature - Czech
Last update: prof. RNDr. Karel Mašek, Ph.D. (28.02.2018)

V. Valvoda, Milena Polcarová, Pavel Lukáč, Základy strukturní analýzy, Karolinum, Praha 1992.

I. Kraus, Struktura a vlastnosti krystalů, Academia, Praha 1993.

Ch. Kittel, Úvod do fyziky pevných látek, Academia, Praha 1985.

L. Eckertová a kol., Metody analýzy povrchů, elektronová mikroskopie a difrakce, Academia, Praha 1996.

B. Smola, Transmisní elektronová difrakce ve fyzice pevných látek, SPN Praha, Praha 1983.

W. Braun, Applied RHEED - Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction during crystal growth, Springer - Verlag, Heidelberg 1999.

Syllabus -
Last update: prof. RNDr. Karel Mašek, Ph.D. (10.05.2020)
1. Structure of solids, basic of crystallography
History, classical definition of crystal, symmetry of crystals, symmetry operations, basic crystallographic terms, stereographical projection, point groups, crystal lattices, Miller indices, basic types of crystal structures.

2. Electron diffraction
Geometrical theory of diffraction, kinematical theory of diffraction, structure factor, reciprocal lattice, Ewald construction, dynamic theory, structure determination, profile analysis.

3. Methods
LEED - Low-Energy Electron Diffraction, RHEED - Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction, TEM - Transmission Electron Microscopy, XPD - Photoelectron Diffraction.

4. Aplication of electron diffraction in thin film physics
Island structures and nanostructures, model catalysts and sensors, thin films.

 
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