• Instructor: Prof. David T. Attwood Email: attwood@berkeley.edu
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• Listed at UC Berkeley as EE290F,cc# 25757 (likely to be approved as co-list AST290S)
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• Spring 2007, Tu & Th, 2:10-3:30 PM, 203 McLaughlin
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• This class is broadcast live over Internet and archived for later viewing (Berkeley Webcast).
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• Textbook:

Soft X-Rays and Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation: Principles and Applications (Cambridge University Press) Table of contents Errata

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• Lectures:
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  • Introduction to Synchrotron Radiation
  • X-Ray Interaction with Matter: Absorption, Scattering, Refraction
  • Probing Matter: Diffraction, Spectroscopy, Photoemission (Prof. Anders Nilsson, Stanford Univeristy)
  • Radiation by an Accelerated Charge: Scattering by Free and Bound Electrons
  • Multi-Electron Atom, Atomic Scattering Factors: Wave Propagation and Refractive Index
  • Refraction and Reflection, Total Internal Reflection, Brewster's Angle, Kramers-Kronig
  • Multilayer Interference Coatings, Scattering, Diffraction, Reflectivity and Applications
  • Intro Synchrotron Radiation, Bending Magnet Radiation
  • Bending Magnet Critical Photon Energy; Undulator Central Radiation Cone
  • Undulator Equation and Radiated Power
  • Spectral Brightness of Undulator Radiation, Harmonics, Wiggler Radiation
  • Spatial and Temporal Coherence; Coherent Undulator Radiation
  • Applications of Coherent Undulator Radiation
  • Visit the Advanced Light Source, Berkeley (ALS)
  • Advanced Spectroscopy for Atomic and Molecular Physics (Prof. Anders Nilsson, Stanford University)
  • Use of NEXAFS in Material Science (Dr. Tony VanBuuren, LLNL/UC Merced)
  • X-Ray Diffraction for Materials Analysis (Dr. Simon Clark, ALS/LBNL)
  • [March 15] Lab Tour: Demonstration of Holograms (No Video/Webcast)
  • Photoemission and Photoemission Spectroscopy (Dr. Zahid Hussain, ALS/LBNL)
  • Angle Resolved Photoemission and Nano-ARPES (Dr. Eli Rotenberg, ALS/LBNL)
  • Photo-Emission Electron Microscopy (PEEM) (Dr. Andreas Scholl, ALS/LBNL)
  • X-Rays and Magnetism (Professor Jochim Stöhr, Stanford University) (Powerpoint Format, 24.3 MB)
  • XMCD; Out-of-Plane Bending Magnet Radiation (Brooke Melser, UC Berkeley)
  • Zone Plate Microscopy and Applications
  • Nanoscale Magnetic Imaging (Dr. Peter Fischer, CXRO/LBNL)
  • Biological X-Ray Microscopy (Prof. Carolyn Larabell, UCSF, and Dr. Mark LeGros, LBNL)
  • X-Ray Microtomography (Dr. Alastair MacDowell, ALS/LBNL)(Movies in the lecture: 1,2,3)
  • Coherent Soft X-Ray Scattering for Studying Nanoscale Materials (Prof. Stephen Kevan, Univ. Oregon)
  • Student Projects (oral report on related material)

• Homework problems (Solutions available upon request)

• Chapter 1	Chapter 6
  Chapter 2	Chapter 7
  Chapter 3	Chapter 8
  Chapter 4	Chapter 9
  Chapter 5	Chapter 10

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