MSEN 619 Crystallography and Diffraction

Major topics of the course include: crystallography – symmetry, point group, space group, lattice and crystal systems; Principles of x-ray diffraction – x-ray sources, x-ray detectors, x-ray scattering by matters, Bragg’s law, structure factor; Experimental techniques for x-ray diffraction, unit cell determination and refinement, structure determination and refinement.