1) Basic concepts of technical diagnostics, overview of methods. The position of technical diagnostics in practice. Testing, testing organization, and certification in the Czech Republic and the EU.
2) Safety testing of electrical items.
3) Climatic and mechanical resistance testing of electrical items and equipment.
4) Processing of measurement results. Measurement errors, accuracy indicators, measurement uncertainties.
5) Mechanical properties testing - overview of tests. Hardness testing.
6) Overview of optical microscopy methods, lenses and their properties, illumination methods and image formation in an optical microscope, characteristic properties of a microscope.
7) Scanning and transmission electron microscopy, electron sources, defects in electromagnetic lenses, low-energy and low-vacuum scanning electron microscopy.
8) Scanning electron microscopy, interaction of accelerated electrons with solids, detection of signals emitted from the sample, types of contrasts, EBIC method.
9) Scanning probe microscopy, basic concepts and principles, scanning tunneling microscopy, atomic force microscopy, sample observation methods, other scanning probe microscopy methods.
10) Diffractographic methods. X-ray, electron, and neutron diffractography.
11) Powder X-ray diffraction spectroscopy and its application for characterizing crystalline materials.
12) Spectroscopic methods, basic concepts, principle of spectrum excitation, overview of spectroscopic methods, X-ray spectral microanalysis.