1. Contemporary materials research strongly relies on understanding physics of structure, microstructure, and defects. This is enabled by microscopy and microanalysis from different facilities.
2. Essentials of electron microscopy contains many topics for fundamental education, such as scattering, diffraction, contrast formation, spectroscopy.
3. NTU students should know that the late president Luk Chi-Hung (陸志鴻) guided our materials research toward microstructure and defects. Hence, Electron Microscopy is the classic course in the department/institute.
4. The targets of this course includes
(1) realizing instrumental operation in electron microscope;
(2) understanding electron diffraction in crystal;
(3) understanding origins of contrast in electron microscope;
(4) understanding origins of signals in microanalysis.
5. The students passing this course should
(1) be ready to learn operations of TEM/SEM;
(2) well explain contrast-microstructure and diffraction-crystal relationships;
(3) well understand essentials in microanalysis.