Howdy MASE 6402 and MME 5401 students!

Exam The solution to the exam is here.

Homework Homework assigned Monday 10/22/12 (due 10/29/12): A1.1, A1.2 and A1.3 from the Appendix 1: Vacuum techniques Homework assigned Monday 10/29/12 (due 11/5/12): Problems 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 from Chapter 1: Radiation and Particles Homework assigned Wednesday 10/31/12 (due 11/12/12): Problems 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 from Chapter 2: Basic Processes Homework assigned Monday 11/5/12 (due 11/12/12): Problems 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 from Chapter 4: XPS

Wiki pages and XRF Report The wiki page with the XRF report is due Monday Nov. 19, 2012. Please send me an e-mail message with the link; please check the pages are accessible to everybody by seeing them from an account different than yours.

This is the wiki page for the physics part of the courses MASE 6402 and MME 4501.

Syllabus

The main three topics to be covered are Auger spectroscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy.

Student's pages
Teams of three student will create a wiki site with pages for each of these topics. The XPS and AES pages will describe a published paper that uses those techniques for analysis, and the XRF page will contain the XRF lab report.

Not to panic, there is HELP, (go to "Training"). Once completed, the student's pages will be linked to this main page from this link: Student pages. Here you can find a sample student page with some examples and instructions you can use for inspiration. Pages from the 2010 Fall semester can be found here: 2010 Student pages.

Lecture notes
I am in the process of writing a series of lecture notes as textbook for the class, you can find PDF printouts of the chapters posted here. Please note that this is mandatory reading material and that the homework is listed at the end of each chapter.

• Appendix 1: Vacuum techniques
• Chapter 1: Radiation and Particles
• Chapter 2: Basic Processes
• Chapter 3: XRF please study these notes before doing XRF lab measurement.
• Chapter 4: XPS
• The solutions of the examples in the lecture notes are posted here.

PDF printouts of the powerpoint presentations used in class are posted here, please print them and bring them to class:

• Introduction
• Appendix 1: Vacuum Techniques.
• Chapter 1: Radiation and Particles
• Chapter 2: Basic Processes part 1, part 2.
• Chapter 4: XPS part 1, part 2.

Lab
As a lab practice all students will have to do an XRF measurement. A few points:

• The equipment is in PSCI 129.
• The lab schedule and operating instructions of XRF are posted here.
• Please bring a portable memory to give you the data files.
• For the analysis of the XRF data you will need to install the software PyMca on your own computer; PyMca is free and can be downloaded from here: http://pymca.sourceforge.net/, please also check the documentation pages.
  If the "Getting started tutorial" at the Chess site in Cornell is down, try my poor-man's version here. For more information see a video of the author describing PyMCA here . At some point you will need this calibration file for ceramics; see this screencast to learn how to calibrate your data.
• The report of your XRF measurement should be posted in your wiki page; one report per team.
• The report is due on friday Nov. 8, 2011.

Homework
Past homeworks are posted here:.

• Homework assigned Monday 10/22/12 (due 10/29/12): A1.1, A1.2 and A1.3 from the Appendix 1: Vacuum techniques
• Homework assigned Monday 10/29/12 (due 11/5/12): Problems 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 from Chapter 1: Radiation and Particles
• Homework assigned Wednesday 10/31/12 (due 11/12/12): Problems 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 from Chapter 2: Basic Processes
• Homework assigned Monday 11/5/12 (due 11/12/12): Problems 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 from Chapter 4: XPS

Exam
The exam will be on our last day of class. Some questions to help you study for the exam are posted here:, and the solution of the Fall 2012 exam is here.