Course Organization¶
part of
MSE672: Introduction to Transmission Electron Microscopy
Spring 2026
by Gerd Duscher
Microscopy Facilities
Institute of Advanced Materials & Manufacturing
Materials Science & Engineering
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Books¶
Williams and Carter¶
Transmission Electron Microscopy
Plenum Press, 2009 (2nd Edition).
available online at the library
Reimer and Kohl¶
Transmission Electron Microscopy
Springer, Berlin, 2007 (5th Edition).
available online at the library
Zuo and Spence¶
**Electron Microdiffraction **
Springer, NewYork, 2017
available online at the library
Kirkland¶
Advanced Computing in Electron Microscopy
Springer, NewYork, 2010 (2nd Edition)
available online at the library
R.F. Egerton¶
Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy in the Electron Microscope
Plenum Press, 2011 (3rd Edition)
Software¶
Image Analysis software for SEM and TEM¶
Digital Micrograph¶
You can get a free offline license from Gatan
ImageJ¶
a free imaging software with a lot of plugins: download from NIH
jupyter notebooks¶
use provided notebooks
Syllabus 2026¶
| Week | Lecture | Chp. | Lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 - 01/25 | 1,2:Introduction, Geometric Ray Optics | 1 | |
| 01/26 - 02/01 | 3,4: Kinematic Diffraction | 2,11 | |
| 02/02 - 02/08 | 5,6:Kinematic Diffraction -parallel | 12 | Lab1: Basic Imaging |
| 02/09 - 02/15 | 7,8:Kinematic Diffraction -convergent | 19,20 | Lab2: Basic Diffraction |
| 02/16 - 02/22 | 9,10:Dynamic Diffraction | 14,15 | Lab3: SAED |
| 02/23 - 03/01 | 11,12:Imaging Overview | 22 | Lab4: CBED |
| 03/02 - 03/08 | 13,14:Imaging Conventional | 24-27 | Lab5: Phase Contrast |
| 03/09 - 03/15 | 15,16:Imaging Phase Contrast | 28,30 | Lab6: CTF |
| 03/16 - 03/22 | Spring Break | Spring Break | |
| 03/23 - 03/29 | 17,18:Imaging and Lens Aberrations | 31 | Lab6: Exam Preparation |
| 03/30 - 04/05 | 19 :Imaging Z-contrast | - | Exam |
| 04/06 - 04/12 | 20,21:Spectroscopy EELS | 36-40 | Lab7: Z-contrast |
| 04/13 - 04/19 | 22,23:Spectroscopy EDS | 33-35 | Lab8: EELS, ESI |
| 04/20 - 04/26 | 24:Other Techniques | 29 | |
| 04/27 - 05/02 | 25,26: TEM parts and vacuum | 5-9 | |
| 05/04 - | 28:Project discussion |
Office Hours¶
Office hours are Thursday from 4 -- 5pm online with the class zoom link.
I will answer email questions in the same time slots.
Class and Lab¶
Parallel to the class there is a Lab (MSE676) course.
We will analyze the data of the lab course, independent of whether you are participating or not,
For the analysis of the data we will need a labtop in class.
Everyone needs a laptop in class
I need real feedback on what you guys want to do and need to learn.
Homework and Quizzes¶
Homeworks and Quizzes are the main way to determine your grade in this course.
Homeworks have to be submitted electronically through Canvas and generally are about analyzing on your own data which are similar to those in the practice sessions.
Think of these homeworks as small take-home exams.
Additionally, there will be reading assignments every week.
Each week before the lecture, there will be a short quiz about the content of the reading assignments.
Neither the TA nor the instructor will answer questions about your homework after the deadline.
If you are more than two homeworks behind, you failed the class.
Final¶
The final is a report of how TEM will/can be used in your research.
This should be based on a critical review of a journal article which did TEM similar to what you propose.
Grades¶
The grade is a determined by 1/3 each: final, homework, and quizzes.