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Publications in Scientific Journals:

P. Schattschneider, C. Hébert, St. Rubino, M. Stöger-Pollach, J. Rusz, P. Novák:
"Magnetic circular dichroism in EELS: Towards 10 nm resolution";
Ultramicroscopy, 108 (2008), 433 - 438.



English abstract:
We describe a new experimental setup for the detection of magnetic circular dichroism with fast electrons (EMCD). As compared to earlier findings the signal is an order of magnitude higher, while the probed area could be significantly reduced, allowing a spatial resolution of better than 40 nm. A simplified analysis of the experimental results is based on the decomposition of the mixed dynamic form factor View the MathML source into a real part related to the scalar product and an imaginary part related to the vector product of the scattering vectors View the MathML source and View the MathML source. Following the recent detection of chiral electronic transitions in the electron microscope the present experiment is a crucial demonstration of the potential of EMCD for nanoscale investigations.

Keywords:
Magnetic dichroism; Electron energy loss spectroscopy; Coherence


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2007.07.002

Electronic version of the publication:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TW1-4P59XF8-1&_user=103677&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000007978&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=103677&md5=88f8a063e9667dcfd62f5b42a14d5c58


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