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See module <a href=http://www.ph.tum.de/mh?mid=PH2182>PH2182</a> The Basics: X-ray sources and instrumentation – X-ray generation general (2 lectures) – The Munich Compact Light Source (2 lectures) – X-ray interaction with matter (2 lectures) – X-ray optics and beamlines (1 lecture) – X-ray detectors (1 lecture) Applications: Imaging with X-rays – X-rays as waves: propagation and coherence (1 lecture) – absorption-based imaging and computed tomography (2 lectures) – X-ray phase-contrast imaging (1 lecture) – X-ray microscopy and coherent diffractive imaging (1 lecture) – Science at the Munich Compact Light Source

individual written exams at the end of the semester

Philip Willmott, An introduction to Synchrotron Radiation, Wiley, 2011 http://lib.myilibrary.com/Open.aspx?id=317772 Jens Als-Nielsen &amp; Des McMorrow Elements of Modern X-ray Physics (2nd ed.), Wiley, 2011 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119998365 David Attwood, Soft X-rays and Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation, Cambridge University Press, 1999 (unfortunately no ebook, but slides on http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~attwood/) Note: Access to ebooks only with proxy (inside MWN, automatic configuration: http://pac.lrz.de) or via eAccess (see also http://www.ub.tum.de/en/ebooks)