Lectures related to X-ray Techniques and Applications

Optical Waves: Reflection, Refraction, and Transmission

Explores optical wave behavior, including reflection, refraction, transmission, and intensity effects at interfaces.

Covers the fundamentals of electromagnetic waves and optics, including interference phenomena, diffraction, refraction, and reflection of light.

Diffraction Basics IV: Bragg's Law and Rotations

Explains Bragg's law, rotations in space, and the Ewald sphere for diffraction.

Beamlines: Primary Optics

Explores techniques for harmonic suppression in synchrotrons and x-ray lasers.

Beamlines: Secondary Optics Part 2

Explores the design and operation of Fresnel zone plates for focusing x-rays in synchrotrons and x-ray free-electron lasers.

Optical Interfaces: Reflection and Refraction

Explores reflection and refraction at optical interfaces, including Fresnel equations and practical applications.

Wigglers and Undulators: Tuning Photon Energy and Polarization

Covers tuning photon energy, selecting desired energy, varying polarization, APPLE undulators, and rapid switching.

Monochromators: General Features

Introduces monochromators and their importance in selecting specific frequencies for experiments.

Synchrotron Radiation

Covers the properties of synchrotron radiation, including its emission by relativistic particles and its effect on the beam through radiation damping.

X-ray Scattering Techniques

Explores x-ray scattering techniques, including radius of gyration, Guinier and Porod regimes, polydispersity, and experimental details.

Synchrotrons and X-ray Free-Electron Lasers: Techniques and Applications

Explores lensless imaging and coherent X-ray diffractive imaging techniques and applications, including high-resolution 3-D imaging of nanocrystal strain.

Synchrotrons and X-ray Techniques

Explores Laue diffraction principles, applications, and modern techniques in materials science and time-resolved experiments.

Large Scale Facilities: Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser

Explores synchrotrons, free electron lasers, electron acceleration, radiation production, and ultrafast magnetization dynamics.

Undulators: Theoretical Principles and Spectral Characteristics

Explores the theoretical principles and spectral characteristics of undulators in synchrotrons and x-ray free-electron lasers.

Synchrotrons and X-ray Free-Electron Lasers

Explores synchrotrons, X-ray lasers, and the crystallographic phase problem.

Zernike Phase-Contrast Imaging

Explores Zernike phase-contrast imaging, providing high-resolution images with high contrast for biological systems.

Surface X-ray Diffraction II

Explores synchrotrons, x-ray lasers, relaxations, reconstructions, and superstructure rods in surface x-ray diffraction techniques.

Advanced Optics: Bragg Gratings

Covers the principles of Bragg gratings on a surface and the existence of different diffraction orders.

Beamlines: Secondary Optics

Explores advanced techniques in secondary optics for synchrotrons and x-ray lasers.

X-ray Magnetic Imaging Techniques

Covers x-ray magnetic imaging techniques, including XMCD, XRMS, and x-ray optics, for studying magnetic materials and domains.