Tutorials in English

A – Lecture notes on EXAFS

• Introduction
• Photoelectric absorption of X-rays
• Origin of EXAFS
• Interpretation of EXAFS
• Experimental techniques
• EXAFS analysis
• XANES
• Appendices

Revised 16 March 2023

B – Lecture notes on Physics of Matter

• Introduction
• Real-space structure
• Reciprocal space
• Symmetry in molecules and crystals
• Representations of symmetry groups
• The origin of structures
• Vibrational dynamics
• Vibrational thermal properties
• Ground-state electronic properties of crystals
• Electron thermal and transport properties
• Structural probes

Revised 30 March 2023

C – Basic Crystallography (slides)

• X-rays and materials structure
• Crystal lattices and cells
• Symmetry classifications
• Some relevant crystal structures
• Close packing

D – X-ray and neutron sources (slides)

• Mechanisms of X-ray production
• Laboratory X-ray sources
• Synchrotron Radiation (storage rings, bending magnets, insertion devices)
• Neutron sources

E1 – X-ray elastic scattering from atoms (slides)

• Structural probes: X-rays, neutron, electrons
• Basics of scattering
• X-ray Thomson scattering
• Interference
• Deviations from classical treatment (electron distribution, Compton effect, electron binding)
• Neutron and electron scattering

E2 – X-ray scattering from molecules and non-crystalline matter (slides)

• Atomic aggregates
• X-ray scattering from molecules, Debye formula
• X-ray scattering from non-crystalline materials

E3 – X-ray scattering from crystals (“diffraction”) (slides)

• X-ray scattering from crystals
• Diffraction conditions
• Experimental methods
• The structure factor
• The phase problem
• Thermal effects
• Synchrotron Radiation and diffraction
• Neutron scattering

E4 – X-ray scattering: quantum approach (slides)

• Scattering cross-section
• Two-photon processes: scattering
• X-ray scattering, elsatic and inelastic
• Static and dynamic scattering functions
• Effects of atomic vibrations on diffraction patterns
• Scattering by crystal phonons, theory and experiments

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