Course detail
Advanced Experimental Methods I
FSI-TS Acad. year: 2021/2022 Summer semester
The practice consists of advanced laboratory experiments and to meet its tasks students must undergo a complex theoretical preparation. The individual experiments address the fields of vacuum physics and techniques, light optics, ion and electron optics, physical technologies and analysis and measurements of properties of solid state materials.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
3
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Ability to independently carry out experiments and share the results using written and oral presentation.
Prerequisites
Atomic Physics, Solid State Physics, Quantum Physics, Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics, Vacuum Physics and Technology, Geometrical and Wave Optics.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is based on individual practical activity on selected experimental setups. Each thematic topic is realized in two separate sessions. An advanced part follows the introduction part in the following week.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
The assessment of a student is made upon his reports on performed experiments and subsequent discussions of the results achieved. The student goes through all experiments. If justified, some experiments might be also done or repeated out of an initial official schedule.
Aims
Students will build experience on experimental activities, data collecting and processing, and analysis and interpretation of results.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
The presence of students at practice is obligatory and is monitored by tutor. The way how to compensate missed practice lessons will be decided by tutor depending on the range and content of the missed lessons.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-FIN-P: Physical Engineering and Nanotechnology, Bachelor's, compulsory
Type of course unit
Laboratory exercise
39 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
X-ray diffraction spectroscopy
Measurement of graphene transport properties.
Measurement of magnetic susceptibility.