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Graduate Research: Excellence in Research & Teaching

This workshop will develop your specialist knowledge into materials characterisation using X-ray diffraction, allowing you to critically analyse the specifics of X-ray diffraction as a research method and apply these learnings to you research project in order to generate high quality research outputs.

The workshop is designed to build on your practical experience using X-ray diffractometers to give you an in-depth understanding of the relationship between instrument hardware, experimental setup, resolution, accuracy and how this impacts your specific application of the technique and the results you obtain.

The facilitator is Dr Jisheng Ma, Senior Research Officer, Monash X-ray Platform. Jisheng is a subject matter expert in X-ray Diffraction at Monash University with over 17 years experience in materials characterisation techniques.

Prerequisites:

Enrol on the Monash X-ray Platform through a new user signup request on the Platform's iLab page
Complete the myDevelopment course "Basic principles of ionising radiation"
Attend a new user meeting with X-ray Platform staff
Complete X-ray Diffraction Practical Training and be performing X-ray Diffraction measurements on your own samples regularly

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this workshop, learners will be able to:

Relate powder X-ray diffraction theory and techniques in to X-ray physics and crystal structures
Detail how diffraction patterns are formed and understand the application of Bragg’s law in X-ray diffraction
Describe the Bragg-Brentano X-ray diffractometer setup and have a good understanding of the setup parameters in relation to errors, accuracies and resolutions
Critically evaluate the hardware setup of a diffractometer to produce high quality data for specific research requirements
Critically evaluate the experimental parameters to produce high quality data for specific research requirements.
Demonstrate the importance of sample preparation and mounting in order to collect high quality data powder X-ray diffraction data