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Winter 2010

460 Introduction to Transmission Electron Microscopy
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The primary focus of this course is to provide both the fundamental theory as well as hands on practice with the use of transmission electron microscopy to study the structure of solids. Please note that there will be no coverage of scanning electron microscopy (SEM).

There are no prerequisites for this class beyond a basic knowledge of solid structures and typical defects. If you are not a Materials Science major, and have not had any prior exposure, I would strongly suggest that you borrow from the library an introductory text on materials science which explains about dislocations, grains, and a little about crystal structure.

404 Defects in Materials
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A student completing this course will have a basic understanding of different classes of point, line, planar and other imperfections at a high enough level that they will be able to read the literature in an intelligent manner. This course also provides the core knowledge of defects in materials that will be built upon in other elective classes that are part of the graduate curriculum.