302739 (v.2) Applied Physics 402

Area:

Department of Applied Physics

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

4.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

2 x 2 Hours Weekly

Other Requisite(s):

Admission: to the Physics honours program

Syllabus:

Probing materials with electrons - imaging modes of the transmission and scanning electron microscopes, lattice imaging, selected area diffraction patterns and electrons loss spectroscopy. Rietveld characterisation of polycrystalline biological materials- diffraction studies and high-resolution synchrotron radiation. Nano-structured materials - design concepts and strategies, processing methods, novel nanostructured microstructures and properties. Nanostructure characterisation and modelling using smallangle scattering - fundamentals of small angle scattering (SAXS and SANS).

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

010301 Physics

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External