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This 5 slides about gives a basic introduction to synchrotron radiation. Information includes how the particles are accelerated, how they travel to the individual instruments, and where synchrotrons in the USA are located.
| Attachment | Size |
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| Intro to synchrotron radiation.pptx | 1.53 MB |
After going over the slides, students will be able to:
- Explain how the synchrotron energy is generated.
- List experimental techniques that use synchrotron radiation.
- Construct a list of the pros and cons of synchrotron radiation and use that knowledge to determine if a specific synchrotron experiment is worth pursuing.
These slides can be used to give students an idea of the basic concepts of synchrotron radiation. After going through the slides, a helpful exercise is to give the students an experiment and have them weigh the pros and cons of using synctroton radiation for the experiment versus a more traditional approach. For example, would it be worthwhile to use synchrotron radiation to obtain X-ray diffraction data on 30 nm crystalline particles? How about 2 nm crystalline particles? Amorphous particles?
Evaluation
Students could work in small groups to determine what kind of experiments are worthwhile to submit an abstract to a synchrotron source and which experiments would be sufficient to run without the synchrotron radiation.
In my College ChemII class, the last chapter is nuclear chemistry. When I application of nuclear chemistry, I actually adapted some of the materials form this LO. I mainly focuses on the linear accelarator lab at Stanford since I had some working experience there, but I showed my students the pictures of circular accelerator and explained how it works. Overall, I like the LO because it's quite informative and precise. I think if the linear accelerator can be added to the LO, it will be better.