Recent content by darkfield

I'm located in Norway. Five years ago everyone who could present some kind of MSc would get a job offer from the oil industry, but now things have completely changed. I think only civil engineers have a decent job marked now. The jobs I typically want ask for people with a MSc in mechanical or...

I have a MSc in engineering physics / applied physics, but i decided to not continue with a PhD, and instead try out my luck as an engineer in the industry. I'm currently working with structural analysis, but I feel somewhat overqualified for most of the work I do, so I feel like switching to...

I have a question regarding X-ray diffraction and energy conservation. If one considers elastic scattering from a rod-like structure, the observed diffraction pattern will change as the sample is illuminated from different directions. For some directions the pattern will be point-like, and...