2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Materials and Chemical Technology Undergraduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
Spectroscopy
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Tetsuji Yano / Hiroko Yokota
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 1-2 Mon / 1-2 Thu
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- MAT.C302
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 28, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course intends to give fundamentals and application of basic and important spectroscopy techniques to the ceramics material. After the introduction, optical spectroscopy, luminescence spectroscopy, maginetic resonance spectroscopy and electron spectroscopy are picked up to understand their details on principle, theory, experimental insturment, and application on the materilas science.
Course description and aims
Understanding the fundamental knowledge on the spectroscopy techniques to characterize materials.
Understanding fundamentals of rotational spectroscopy and its application to the inorganic materials
Understanding fundamentals of vibrational spectroscopy and its application to the inorganic materials
Understanding fundamentals of electron transition spectroscopy and its application to the inorganic materials
Understanding fundamentals of scattering spectroscopy and its application to the inorganic materials
Understanding fundamentals of magnetic resonance spectroscopy and its application to the inorganic materials
Understanding fundamentals of electron spectroscopy and its application to the inorganic materials.
Keywords
spectroscopy, electron transition, vibration, rotation, luminescence, magnetic resonance, phoptoelectron
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
After the introduction, optical spectroscopy, luminescence spectroscopy, maginetic resonance spectroscopy and electron spectroscopy are lectured from the points of view of their principle, theory, experimental insturment, and application on the materilas science.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction to spectroscopy：Interaction of photon with materials | Students learn the outline of spectroscopy, classification and physics on the interaction between optical wave and materials. |
| Class 2 | Absorption spectroscopy in UV and visible region: Electric transitions (1) | Students learn the principle of optical absorption by electric transition, and the practical spectroscopic data of inorganic materials. |
| Class 3 | Absorption spectroscopy in UV and visible region: Electric transitions (2) | Students learn the principle of optical absorption by electric transition, and the practical spectroscopic data of inorganic materials. |
| Class 4 | Absorption spectroscopy in UV and visible region: Electric transitions (3) | Students learn the principle of optical absorption by electric transition, and the practical spectroscopic data of inorganic materials. |
| Class 5 | Infrared absorption spectroscopy for materials analysis; Principle of absorption by vibrational motion (1) | Students learn the principle of optical absorption by vibrational motion of materials. |
| Class 6 | Infrared absorption spectroscopy for materials analysis; Inorganic materials (2) | Students learn the practical spectroscopic data of optical absorption by vibrational rotational motion in inorganic materials. |
| Class 7 | Raman spectroscopy (1): Principle of Raman scattering due to vibrational motion | Students learn the principle of optical scattering by vibrational motion in materials. |
| Class 8 | Raman spectroscopy (2): Instrumentation and practical analyses | Students learn the practical spectroscopic data of optical scattering by vibrational rotational motion in inorganic materials. |
| Class 9 | Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1): Principle and practice of NMR | Students learn the principle of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and practical spectroscopic data of inorganic materials. |
| Class 10 | Electron spin resonance spectroscopy (2): Principle and practice of ESR | Students learn the principle of electron spin resonance(ESR), and practical spectroscopic data of inorganic materials. |
| Class 11 | Photoluminescence spectroscopy: Principle and practice (1) | Students learn the principle of photoemission by electron transition, and spectroscopic data of inorganic materials. |
| Class 12 | Photoluminescence spectroscopy: Principle and practice (2) | Students learn the principle of photoemission by electron transition, and spectroscopic data of inorganic materials. |
| Class 13 | Electron spectroscopy (1): X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS) | Students learn the principle of photoelectron emission from materials, and practical spectroscopic data of inorganic materials. |
| Class 14 | Electron spectroscopy (2): Auger electron spectroscopy(AES) | Students learn the principle of Auger electron emission and X-ray emission from materials, and practical spectroscopic data of inorganic materials. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
P. Atkins and J. de Paula, Physical Chemmistry, the second volume , eighth edition (Tokyo Kagaku Dojin)
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Reference books are introduced in lecture.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Achievement is evaluated by the percentage of attendance, homeworks or excercises and final exam.
Related courses
- MAT.P215 ： Inorganic Chemistry
- MAT.C201 ： Inorganic Quantum Chemistry
Prerequisites
Enrollment of quantum chemistry and physical chemistry is desirable.