- Factors determining crystal structure, bonding, binding energy, Madelung constant.
- Pauling’s rules, close packing, interstitial sites.
- Characteristic crystal structures of technological materials (metals, ceramics).
- Polymorphism, polytypism.
- Solid solutions, order–disorder phenomena.
- Polycrystalline materials, nanocrystalline materials.
- Structural defects (point, line, extended, and three-dimensional).
- Quasicrystals.
- Crystal symmetry principles, symmetry operations and groups, variants, holohedry, symmorphic and non-symmorphic groups, centrosymmetric and non-centrosymmetric crystals.
- Transmission electron microscopy: electron–matter interaction, basic operating modes, electron diffraction, imaging of structural defects and interfaces.
- Nanoscopy and atomic-resolution electron microscopy, scanning transmission electron microscopy, spectroscopic techniques, applications.
- Surface scanning microscopies: scanning electron microscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy, and atomic force microscopy; applications.
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