TY  - JOUR
AU  - Song, Dongsheng
AU  - Tavabi, Amir H.
AU  - Li, Zi-An
AU  - Kovács, András
AU  - Rusz, Ján
AU  - Huang, Wenting
AU  - Richter, Gunther
AU  - Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal
AU  - Zhu, Jing
TI  - An in-plane magnetic chiral dichroism approach for measurement of intrinsic magnetic signals using transmitted electrons
JO  - Nature Communications
VL  - 8
SN  - 2041-1723
CY  - London
PB  - Nature Publishing Group
M1  - FZJ-2017-06635
SP  - 15348 -
PY  - 2017
AB  - Electron energy-loss magnetic chiral dichroism is a powerful technique that allows the local magnetic properties of materials to be measured quantitatively with close-to-atomic spatial resolution and element specificity in the transmission electron microscope. Until now, the technique has been restricted to measurements of the magnetic circular dichroism signal in the electron beam direction. However, the intrinsic magnetization directions of thin samples are often oriented in the specimen plane, especially when they are examined in magnetic-field-free conditions in the transmission electron microscope. Here, we introduce an approach that allows in-plane magnetic signals to be measured using electron magnetic chiral dichroism by selecting a specific diffraction geometry. We compare experimental results recorded from a cobalt nanoplate with simulations to demonstrate that an electron magnetic chiral dichroism signal originating from in-plane magnetization can be detected successfully.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000401279300001
C6  - pmid:28504267
DO  - DOI:10.1038/ncomms15348
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/837858
ER  -