4 ECTS credits
120 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4012201FNR for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (F) Master - specialised level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- English
- Partnership Agreement
- Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- Department
- Applied Physics and Photonics
- External partners
- Universiteit Gent
- Educational team
- Dirk Poelman
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 22.5 contact hours Lecture
22.5 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
- Course Content
Make the students acquainted with a number of important spectroscopic techniques for the investigation of the electronic and the vibrational properties of solid materials. This includes both the theoretical background of the techniques and their practical
application:
• UV-VIS-NIR Spectrophotometry: Introduction, Applications
• Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy: Introduction, Vibrational transitions in materials, Electronic transitions in materials
• Luminescence Spectroscopy: PL (photoluminescence), CL (cathodoluminescence)
- Course material
- Handbook (Recommended) : Luminescent Materials, G. Blasse, B.C. Grabmaier, Springer, Berlin, 9783540580195, 1994
Digital course material (Required) : Optical Spectroscopy of Materials, Course notes, D. Poelman
- Additional info
This course is taught entirely at UGent.
Lecturer: Prof. Dirk Poelman.
- Learning Outcomes
-
Algemene competenties
CONCEPTS: optical density, infrared- and Raman-active modes, excitation spectrum, emission spectrum, configuration coördinate diagram
INSIGHTS: relation between resolution, dynamic range, measurement time and signal to noise ratio in measurements. Understand the origin of different luminescent processed. Insights in processes, occurring in cathodoluminescence; interpretation of thin film CL. Understand
the possiblities and limitations of ellipsometric measurements. SKILLS: Ability to estimate the complex refractive index of an arbitrary material from optical measurements. Ability to interpret an infrared absorption spectrum of a solid.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Oral exam
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
n/a
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Photonics Engineering: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Photonics Engineering: On campus traject
Master of Photonics Engineering: Online/Digital traject