2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Materials and Chemical Technology Department of Materials Science and Engineering Graduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
Advanced Course of Instrumental Analysis for Materials
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Nobuhiro Matsushita
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- MAT.C405
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Various kinds of the instrumental analysis techniques have been utilized for the evaluation and analysis of materials. In this lecture, indispensable analysis techniques are explained from their fundamental principles to their application to the latest materials science.
Course description and aims
Understand the principle and application of lectured instrument analysis techniques.
Student learning outcomes
実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)
Lectures on each analytical device will be given by expert engineers who are in charge of research and development of each device in the analytical device manufacturers.
Keywords
TEM，SEM，EPMA，SAM，XPS，FIB，NMR，ESR，XRF，XRD，thermal analysis
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
In every lectures, different types of the instrument analysis techniques are lectured from the principle of analysis to the application to the materials science. The students recieve the documents of the respective analysis technique, and use then to understand the explanatiuon by lecturors.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Principle and application of electron spin resonance spectroscopy(ESR) | The students understand the principle and application of electron spin resonance spectroscopy(ESR). |
| Class 2 | Principle and application of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy(NMR) | The students understand the principle and application of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy(NMR). |
| Class 3 | Principle and application of mass spectroscopy(MS) | The students understand the principle and application of mass spectroscopy(MS). |
| Class 4 | Principle and application of electron probe microanalysis(EPMA) | The students understand the principle and application of electron probe microanalysis(EPMA). |
| Class 5 | Principle and application of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS) | The students understand the principle and application of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS). |
| Class 6 | Principle and application of Scanning Auger electron microscope(SAM) | The students understand the principle and application of Scanning Auger electron microscope(SAM). |
| Class 7 | Principle and application of scanning electron microscope(SEM) | The students understand the principle and application of scanning electron microscope(SEM). |
| Class 8 | Principle and application of transmission electron microscope(TEM) | The students understand the principle and application of transmission electron microscope(TEM). |
| Class 9 | Principle and application of focused ion beam (FIB) | The students understand the principle and application of focused ion beam (FIB). |
| Class 10 | Principle and application of X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy(XRF) | The students understand the principle and application of X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy(XRF). |
| Class 11 | Principle and application of thermal analysis techniques | The students understand the principle and application of thermal analysis techniques. |
| Class 12 | Principle and application of X-ray diffraction analysis(XRD) | The students understand the principle and application of X-ray diffraction analysis(XRD). |
| Class 13 | Presentation and discussion 1 | Presentation of recent instrument analysis progress picked up from the literatures by each student |
| Class 14 | Presentation and discussion 2 | Presentation of recent instrument analysis progress picked up from the literatures by each student |
| Class 15 | Presentation and discussion 3（preliminary date） |
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)
not specified.
Printed documents are provided for each lecture.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
not specified
Evaluation methods and criteria
Achievement is evaluated by the percentage of attendance and presentations.
Related courses
- MAT.C302 ： Spectroscopy
Prerequisites
not specified