Teaching

Offered in Spring 26 

Prerequisites: Math 162 and Physics 121

Course Description: This course will cover the fundamental concepts of thermodynamics and their application to substances. The key topics include: 

1. Energy and the First Law of Thermodynamics

2. Properties of a Pure, Simple, Compressible Substance

3. Energy analysis for a control volume

4. The Second law of Thermodynamics

5. Entropy

6. Thermodynamic Relations for Simple Compressible Substances

Textbook: Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, 9th edition, MJ Moran and HN Shapiro, Wiley-VCH 2017.

Offered in Fall 25, Spring 25

Course Description: This course will cover the fundamentals and working principles of a wide range of microscopy and spectroscopy techniques, and their applications in analyzing the structure or property of materials. The key topics include:

1. Structure of materials

2. X-ray diffraction (XRD)

3. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)

4. Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM)

5. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)

6. Scanning probe microscopy (SPM): scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM)

7. Energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS)

8. Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS)

9. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)

10. X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS)

11. Thermal analysis: differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)

Textbook: Materials Characterization: Introduction to Microscopic and Spectroscopic Methods, 2nd Edition, Yang Leng, Wiley-VCH 2013.

Useful References:

1.     Microstructural characterization of Materials, David Brandon and Wayne D. Kaplan, 2nd Edition, Wiley-VCH 2008.

2.     Elements of X-ray Diffraction, B. S. Cullity and S. R. Stock, 3rd edition, Prentice-Hall 2011.

3.     Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Textbook for Materials Science, David B. William and C. Barry Carter, Springer 2019.

4.     Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy, Stephen J. Pennycook, Peter D. Nellist, Springer 2011.