Free Online Course: Fundamentals of optical and scanning electron microscopy provided by Swayam is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 8 weeks long, 2-3 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Fundamentals of optical and scanning electron microscopy is taught by S.Sankaran.
8 weeks long, 2-3 hours a week
Finished
It is a first course at the under graduate level on microstructural characterization of materials. This course will cover the basic principles and techniques of optical and scanning electron microscopy along with demonstrations on the instrument details and imaging experiments through videos. This course also deals with the sample preparation techniques for the microstructural analysis with practical examples through videos.
Module 1
1. Fundamentals of optics
2. Optical microscope and its instrumental details
3. Variants in the optical microscopes and image formation
Module 2
4. Phase contrast, Polarised light, Differential interference contrast, Fluorescence microscopy
5. Sample preparation and applications
Module 3
6. Introduction to Scanning electron microscopy
7. Instrumental details and image formation
Module 4
8. Various imaging techniques and spectroscopy
9. Sample preparation and Applications
