MCH-303 Diffraction Techniques and ESCA Syllabus M.Sc.(CHEMISTRY) 3rd-III Sem Syllabus for DAVV Indore Affiliated Institutions

DEVI AHILYA VISHWAVIDYALAYA, DAVV INDORE Syllabus

M.Sc. (CHEMISTRY)Third-3rd-III Semester Curriculum/ Syllabus

MCH-303: Diffraction Techniques and ESCA Syllabus

Unit-I : X-ray Diffraction

Bragg condition, Miller indices, Laue Method, Bragg method, Debye Scherrer method of X-ray structural analysis of crystals, index reflections, identification of unit cells from systematic absences in diffraction pattern, Structure of simple lattices and X-ray intensities, structure factor

and its relation to intensity and electron density, phase problem. Description of the procedure for an X-ray structure analysis, absolute configuration of molecules.

Unit-II : Electron Diffraction

Scattering intensity vs. scattering angle, Wierl equation, measurement technique, elucidation of structure of simple gas phase molecules. Low energy electron diffraction and structure of surfaces.

Unit-III : Neutron Diffraction 

Scattering of neutrons by solids measurement techniques, Elucidation of structure of magnetically ordered unit cells.

Unit IV : Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Basic principles; photo-electric effect, ionization process, Koopman's theorem. Photoelectron spectra of simple molecules, ESCA, chemical information from ESCA. Auger electron spectroscopy-basic idea.