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Experimental methods in condensed matter physics

Lecturers:

Y. Ando, M. Braden, A. Grüneis, M. Grüninger, J. Hemberger, I. Lindfors-Vrejoiu, P. van Loosdrecht, T. Lorenz, and T. Michely

Aims of the course:

To give an overview of the methods used in modern experimental condensed matter physics. The contents of the course relate to synthesis, structural characterization, transport properties, and spectroscopy. Specific consideration will be given to the methods that have been developed and are used at the University of Cologne. 

time

Monday, 10:00 - 11:30


The lecture starts on April 1, 2019, the last lecture will be given on July 8, 2019.


 

location

seminar room 2, Institute of Physics II

Topics

01.04.2019

Lorenz

Growth of high-quality bulk single crystals

08.04.2019

Lorenz

Thermodynamics and transport (specific heat, thermal expansion, electric and thermal transport)

15.04.2019

Hemberger

Dynamic response 1 - Permittivity and conductivity

29.04.2019

Hemberger

Dynamic response 2 - Magnetic susceptibility, spin-resonance, and ultrasound

06.05.2019

Ando

Thin film devices (device fabrication, field-effect gating, magnetotransport)

13.05.2019

Michely

Surface Microscopy I: Basic concepts, AFM and STM, LEEM

20.05.2019

Michely

Surface Microscopy II: Spectroscopic methods, inelastic and spin polarized tunneling

27.05.2019

Grüninger

Optical spectroscopy (dielectric function,ellipsometry, FTIR, time-domain spectroscopy)

03.06.2019

Grüneis

Angular Resolved Photo-Emission Spectroscopy (ARPES)

10.06.2019

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Pentecoast (no lecture)

17.06.2019

Braden

Diffraction methods (x-rays, electrons, neutrons

24.06.2019

Grüninger

Inelastic light scattering (Raman, RIXS)

01.07.2019

van Loosdrecht

Ultrafast spectroscopy

08.07.2019

Lindfors-Vrejoiu

Pulsed Laser Deposition

Presentations

The presentations can be downloaded from ILIAS (sign in with your smail account):

https://www.ilias.uni-koeln.de/ilias/goto_uk_crs_2819769.html

Students from Bonn University have access to ILIAS via ecampus (sign in with your ecampus account and click "Call ECS Course").

Literature

Crystal growth:

G. Dhanaraj, K. Byrappa, V. Prasad, and M. Dudley, eds., Springer Handbook of Crystal Growth (Springer, 2010).

Scattering:

C. Giacovazzo, Fundamentals of Crystallography (Oxford Science Publications, 1992)

Neutron scattering:

G.L. Squires, Thermal Neutron Scattering (Cambridge University Press, 1978)

Raman/optical spectroscopy:

Kuzmany: Solid-State Spectroscopy: An Introduction (Springer, 2009)

Ultrafast spectroscopy:

Optical Techniques for Solid-State Materials Characterization, eds. Rohit P. Prasankumar, Antoinette J. Taylor, CRC press (2011). ISBN 9781439815373.

Scanning probe techniques:

Bert Voigtländer: Scanning Probe Microscopy (Springer 2015)

Photoelectron Spectroscopy:

S. Hüfner, Photoelectron Spectroscopy Principles and Applications (Springer, 1996)

NEXAFS/XMCD:

Joachim Stohr ,NEXAFS Spectroscopy (Springer, 1996)