Guidance on Best Practices for Course Assignments
Guidance on how to provide valuable discussion in perusall
Lab notebook rubric
Rubrics for graphs and experimental setups (MOKE students pick 1 or do both if not sure)
Rubrics for group presentations and abstracts for Fall 2025
Magnetism Resources (Share Good Materials You Find with Holcomb to Include)
Course tutorial, focused on magnetism and thin film characterization
Beginner's guide to interpreting magnetic susceptibility
Raman Resources
Introduction to Raman spectroscopy
How to use the Raman microscope at WVU
MOKE Resources
Understanding linear, circular and elliptical light
Understanding how light interacts with a material
Introduction to MOKE--discusses basics of light and different geometries
MOKE experiment with photoelastic modulator but has some nice MOKE discussion
Resources on Fitting Data (Also See Lecture Slides)
Plotting a Lorentzian in Excel but other fits could be done in the same way
Doing a Lorentzian fit in R
X-ray Diffraction Resources
How to use XRD software to identify your XRD peaks
Top 10 mistakes commonly made in x-ray diffraction
Using XRD data to find crystallite size