The first MOOC to provide an extensive introduction to synchrotron and XFEL facilities and associated techniques and applications
Course Details
| Language | English |
| Duration | 6 weeks |
| Effort | 3-5 hours / week |
Description
Are you interested in investigating materials and their properties with unsurpassed accuracy and fidelity? Synchrotrons and XFELs count as Science’s premier microscopic tool in scientific endeavours as diverse as molecular biology, environmental science, cultural heritage, catalytical chemistry, and the electronic properties of novel materials, to name but a few examples.
This second of two sister courses is pitched at a level to provide valuable insights to a scientifically diverse audience into the broad spectrum of methods that use synchrotrons, including diffraction and elastic scattering; absorption, fluorescence, and photoelectron spectroscopies; and various imaging techniques, including tomography, coherent lensless imaging, and ptychography.
What you will learn
- Elastic scattering and diffraction
- X-ray spectroscopies
- X-ray tomography
- Lensless imaging techniques
Prerequisites
Synchrotrons and X-Ray Free Electron Lasers (part 1)
Plan
- Week 1: Diffraction and scattering basics and theory
- Week 2: Diffraction techniques
- Week 3: Aspects of x-ray spectroscopy theory and absorption spectroscopy
- Week 4: X-ray emission spectroscopies and electron spectroscopies
- Week 5: Tomography and other full-field x-ray microscopies
- Week 6: Lensless imaging and x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy
