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PCG-SCMP – Educational portfolio
- Crystal structures and their transformations
- Space Group Symmetry
- Symmetry lowering
- Structural phase transitions – Landau theory
- Representation analysis
- Tensors in crystallography
- Charge density
- Modulated crystal structures – Superspace group approach
- Elastic properties
- Strain-stress relations
- Pressure effects
- Bulk properties
- Thermal expansion in crystals
- Atomic displacement parameters: relationship with phonons fireworks and specific heat.
- Magnetic structures
- Description of magnetic structures – propagation vectors
- Magnetic symmetry analysis – irreps and coreps
- Spin density determination with polarised neutrons.
- XYZ and spherical polarimetry applied to crystalline materials
- Microstructure analysis
- Strain effects
- Particle size and distribution
- Stacking faults
- Texture
- Diffraction methods
- CW neutron and x-rays
- TOF neutrons
- Energy dispersive x-rays
- Diffraction imaging – TEDDI etc.
- Time-resolved crystallography
- Crystallography under high pressure
- High-magnetic-field crystallography
- SX techniques: Laue, time-sorted Laue…
- Data analysis
- Refinement of structural parameters –least square – Rietveld
- Direct-space methods – simulated annealing
- Single-crystal techniques – twinning
- Instrumentation
- Diffraction geometries
- Principles of TOF/CW instrument design
- Detector technologies of X-rays and neutrons
