Mechanical Behavior of Materials. A materials science approach is followed to understand and model the mechanical behavior that combines continuum mechanics, thermodynamics, kinetics, and microstructure. Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy. Diffraction contrast analysis of crystalline defects. Phase contrast imaging.
Physical optics approach to dynamical electron diffraction and imaging.
Microbeam methods for diffraction and imaging. Chemical analysis by energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry and electron energy loss spectrometry. Structure and Bonding in Materials. Atomic structure, hybridization, molecular orbital theory, dependence of chemical bonding on atom configurations. Covalency, ionicity, electronegativity.