Goals: acquiring knowledge on spectroscopic experimental methods for examining materials. The following methods will be discussed: nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), gamma-ray spectroscopy, spectroscopy with positrons and mions, neutron scattering, spectroscopy with atoms and ions, magnetometry (SQUID), measurements of transport phenomena in substances.
Goals: to introduce basic physical and chemical processes that occur on surfaces of solids and are important for material properties, technological applications and development of new advanced technologies. Topics: physico-chemical fundamentals of vacuum engineering with emphasis on high and ultrahigh vacuum; learning that free surfaces of solids have internal boundaries and thin layers that have different ... Read more
This course is intended for postgraduate students and presents all the essential physico-metallurgical parameters and rules that influence and determine the structure of multi-component alloy systems. It gives basic characteristics and rules that are valid for binary alloy systems and are upgraded to ternary, quaternary and multi-component alloy systems. It enables understanding of how during ... Read more
The course provides an overview of methods for determining crystal and molecular structure of crystalline substances, primarily by X-ray structural analysis. Growth of real crystals is related to the appearance of point (atomic and electron) defects. Knowledge on equilibrium of defects helps to explain many properties of non-ideal crystalline substances.
Goals: to deepen knowledge about thermodynamics and phase transformations in materials. The following topics will be discussed: thermodynamics of pure substances, thermodynamics of solutions, free energy and phase diagrams of binary systems, thermodynamics of surfaces and small systems, heterophase and homophase fluctuations, thermodynamics of defects, diffusion, kinetics of nucleation and growth and morphological instability.
Goals: to understand the basic physical properties of common materials, e.g. metals, semiconductors, insulators, etc., and understanding basic physical mechanisms that are responsible for ordered or partially ordered structures and macroscopic quantum states. This is a fundamental course for special courses that require knowledge about physics of materials.
Students will get familiar with the background in the theory of engineering measurements. They will be able to select the proper measurement method or system and to interpret the results obtained from such measurements. They will gain the ability to apply fundamental knowledge of engineering measurements in praxis.
The scope of the course is to introduce the students to theoretical bases, planning and production of raw materials, material synthesis and product development, material characterisation and technologies of powder metallurgy production.
Main competences for students are to learn basics of foundry that concern shaping of inner and outer surfaces of casting, casting technology, solidification in mould, wreaking from unique sand mould, casting ejection from permanent moulds, knowing and understanding the basic properties of casting and mould materials. The special focus is on machines that are necessary for ... Read more