This 3-credits master course (PHYS-405) is offered in Autumn semester. By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Integrate the notions of critical reading of articles,
- Assess / Evaluate scientific articles, their quality and defaults,
- Interpret knowledge of several specific experimental methods.
Objectives
- Learning several advanced methods in experimental physics,
- Critical reading of experimental papers.
Content
– Noise and interference: Their origins, their influence on experimental results, methods for noise and interference reduction
– Scanning probe microscopy (SPM): Principles of operation of the scanning tunneling microscope and atomic force microscope, Advanced scanning microscopy techniques, applications
– Optical spectroscopys: The elements of a modern spectroscopy system,methods of spectral dispersion and their advantages, optical detectors
– Electron microscopy: Transmission and scanning microscopes, their principles of operation, observation tecniques, uses …
– Structural characterization: RX, electron diffraction, …