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Ovchinnikova EN, Kozlovskaya KA, Dmitrienko VE, Oreshko AP. The Use of Circularly Polarized Synchrotron Radiation in Diffraction and Spectral Studies of Noncentrosymmetric Crystals. CRYSTALLOGR REP+ 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s1063774522060207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Zhou Hagström N, Schneider M, Kerber N, Yaroslavtsev A, Burgos Parra E, Beg M, Lang M, Günther CM, Seng B, Kammerbauer F, Popescu H, Pancaldi M, Neeraj K, Polley D, Jangid R, Hrkac SB, Patel SKK, Ovcharenko S, Turenne D, Ksenzov D, Boeglin C, Baidakova M, von Korff Schmising C, Borchert M, Vodungbo B, Chen K, Luo C, Radu F, Müller L, Martínez Flórez M, Philippi-Kobs A, Riepp M, Roseker W, Grübel G, Carley R, Schlappa J, Van Kuiken BE, Gort R, Mercadier L, Agarwal N, Le Guyader L, Mercurio G, Teichmann M, Delitz JT, Reich A, Broers C, Hickin D, Deiter C, Moore J, Rompotis D, Wang J, Kane D, Venkatesan S, Meier J, Pallas F, Jezynski T, Lederer M, Boukhelef D, Szuba J, Wrona K, Hauf S, Zhu J, Bergemann M, Kamil E, Kluyver T, Rosca R, Spirzewski M, Kuster M, Turcato M, Lomidze D, Samartsev A, Engelke J, Porro M, Maffessanti S, Hansen K, Erdinger F, Fischer P, Fiorini C, Castoldi A, Manghisoni M, Wunderer CB, Fullerton EE, Shpyrko OG, Gutt C, Sanchez-Hanke C, Dürr HA, Iacocca E, Nembach HT, Keller MW, Shaw JM, Silva TJ, Kukreja R, Fangohr H, Eisebitt S, Kläui M, Jaouen N, Scherz A, Bonetti S, Jal E. Megahertz-rate ultrafast X-ray scattering and holographic imaging at the European XFEL. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2022; 29:1454-1464. [PMID: 36345754 PMCID: PMC9641564 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577522008414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
The advent of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) has revolutionized fundamental science, from atomic to condensed matter physics, from chemistry to biology, giving researchers access to X-rays with unprecedented brightness, coherence and pulse duration. All XFEL facilities built until recently provided X-ray pulses at a relatively low repetition rate, with limited data statistics. Here, results from the first megahertz-repetition-rate X-ray scattering experiments at the Spectroscopy and Coherent Scattering (SCS) instrument of the European XFEL are presented. The experimental capabilities that the SCS instrument offers, resulting from the operation at megahertz repetition rates and the availability of the novel DSSC 2D imaging detector, are illustrated. Time-resolved magnetic X-ray scattering and holographic imaging experiments in solid state samples were chosen as representative, providing an ideal test-bed for operation at megahertz rates. Our results are relevant and applicable to any other non-destructive XFEL experiments in the soft X-ray range.
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- Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, Saint-Aubin, Boite Postale 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
- Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Université Paris-Saclay, 91767 Palaiseau, France
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
- Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Zentraleinrichtung Elektronenmikroskopie (ZELMI), Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
- Institut Jean Lamour, Nancy, France
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- Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, Saint-Aubin, Boite Postale 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Department of Physics, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
- Center for Memory and Recording Research, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät – Department Physik, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany
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- University of Strasbourg – CNRS, IPCMS, UMR 7504, 67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Ioffe Institute, 26 Politekhnicheskaya, St Petersburg 194021, Russian Federation
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- Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique – Matière et Rayonnement, LCPMR, 75005 Paris, France
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, 8000C Aarhus, Denmark
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
- National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), A. Solłana 7, 05-400 Otwock-Świerk, Poland
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science CFEL, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
- Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 30172 Venezia, Italy
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Computer Engineering, Heidelberg University, Germany
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- Institute of Computer Engineering, Heidelberg University, Germany
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- Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze Applicate, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Dalmine, Italy
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science CFEL, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Memory and Recording Research, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät – Department Physik, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Center for Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO 80918, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
- Associate, Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
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- Quantum Electromagnetics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Quantum Electromagnetics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Quantum Electromagnetics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Davis, CA, USA
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
- Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
- Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, 12489 Berlin, Germany
- Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, Saint-Aubin, Boite Postale 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Department of Physics, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 30172 Venezia, Italy
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique – Matière et Rayonnement, LCPMR, 75005 Paris, France
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Kumar TSJ, Arumugam M. Optical Properties of Magnetic Nanoalloys and Nanocomposites. HANDBOOK OF MAGNETIC HYBRID NANOALLOYS AND THEIR NANOCOMPOSITES 2022:547-573. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90948-2_18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Kumar TSJ, Arumugam M. Optical Properties of Magnetic Nanoalloys and Nanocomposites. HANDBOOK OF MAGNETIC HYBRID NANOALLOYS AND THEIR NANOCOMPOSITES 2022:1-27. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-34007-0_18-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2022] [Accepted: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Soft X-ray Lensless Imaging in Reflection Mode. PHOTONICS 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/photonics8120569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We report on the development and implementation of methodologies dedicated to soft X-ray imaging by coherent scattering in reflection mode. Two complementary approaches are tested, based on Fourier transform holography and on ptychography. A new method for designing holographic masks has been developed. Our results represent a feasibility test and highlight the potential and limitations of imaging in reflection mode. Reflectivity is less efficient than transmission at soft X-ray wavelengths, hampering the acquisition of good quality images. Nonetheless, it has the potential to image a wider set of samples, notably those that are not transparent to soft X-rays. Although the images obtained so far are of modest quality, these results are extremely encouraging for continuing the development of coherent soft X-ray imaging in reflection mode.
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Turnbull LA, Birch MT, Laurenson A, Bukin N, Burgos-Parra EO, Popescu H, Wilson MN, Stefančič A, Balakrishnan G, Ogrin FY, Hatton PD. Tilted X-Ray Holography of Magnetic Bubbles in MnNiGa Lamellae. ACS NANO 2021; 15:387-395. [PMID: 33119252 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c07392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Nanoscopic lamellae of centrosymmetric ferromagnetic alloys have recently been reported to host the biskyrmion spin texture; however, this has been disputed as the misidentication of topologically trivial type-II magnetic bubbles. Here we demonstrate resonant soft X-ray holographic imaging of topological magnetic states in lamellae of the centrosymmetric alloy (Mn1-xNix)0.65Ga0.35 (x = 0.5), showing the presence of magnetic stripes evolving into single core magnetic bubbles. We observe rotation of the stripe phase via the nucleation and destruction of disclination defects. This indicates the system behaves as a conventional uniaxial ferromagnet. By utilizing the holography with extended reference by autocorrelation linear differential operator (HERALDO) method, we show tilted holographic images at 30° incidence confirming the presence of type-II magnetic bubbles in this system. This study demonstrates the utility of X-ray imaging techniques in identifying the topology of localized structures in nanoscale magnetism.
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- Luke A Turnbull
- Centre for Materials Physics, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE United Kingdom
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- Centre for Materials Physics, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE United Kingdom
- Diamond Light Source, Didcot, OX11 0DE United Kingdom
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QL United Kingdom
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QL United Kingdom
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, Saint Aubin, BP 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Centre for Materials Physics, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL United Kingdom
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QL United Kingdom
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- Centre for Materials Physics, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE United Kingdom
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Birch MT, Cortés-Ortuño D, Turnbull LA, Wilson MN, Groß F, Träger N, Laurenson A, Bukin N, Moody SH, Weigand M, Schütz G, Popescu H, Fan R, Steadman P, Verezhak JAT, Balakrishnan G, Loudon JC, Twitchett-Harrison AC, Hovorka O, Fangohr H, Ogrin FY, Gräfe J, Hatton PD. Real-space imaging of confined magnetic skyrmion tubes. Nat Commun 2020; 11:1726. [PMID: 32265449 PMCID: PMC7138844 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15474-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Accepted: 03/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically nontrivial particles with a potential application as information elements in future spintronic device architectures. While they are commonly portrayed as two dimensional objects, in reality magnetic skyrmions are thought to exist as elongated, tube-like objects extending through the thickness of the host material. The study of this skyrmion tube state (SkT) is vital for furthering the understanding of skyrmion formation and dynamics for future applications. However, direct experimental imaging of skyrmion tubes has yet to be reported. Here, we demonstrate the real-space observation of skyrmion tubes in a lamella of FeGe using resonant magnetic x-ray imaging and comparative micromagnetic simulations, confirming their extended structure. The formation of these structures at the edge of the sample highlights the importance of confinement and edge effects in the stabilisation of the SkT state, opening the door to further investigation into this unexplored dimension of the skyrmion spin texture.
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- M T Birch
- Centre for Materials Physics, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
- Diamond Light Source, Didcot, OX11 0DE, UK
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- Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Centre for Materials Physics, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
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- Centre for Materials Physics, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
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- Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QL, UK
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QL, UK
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- Centre for Materials Physics, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
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- Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Institut Nanospektroskopie, Kekuléstrasse 5, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, Saint Aubin, BP 48, 91192, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Diamond Light Source, Didcot, OX11 0DE, UK
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- Diamond Light Source, Didcot, OX11 0DE, UK
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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- Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK
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- Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK
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- Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
- European XFEL GmbH, Holzkoppel 4, 22869, Schenefeld, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QL, UK
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- Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Centre for Materials Physics, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK.
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Loudon JC, Twitchett‐Harrison AC, Cortés‐Ortuño D, Birch MT, Turnbull LA, Štefančič A, Ogrin FY, Burgos‐Parra EO, Bukin N, Laurenson A, Popescu H, Beg M, Hovorka O, Fangohr H, Midgley PA, Balakrishnan G, Hatton PD. Do Images of Biskyrmions Show Type-II Bubbles? ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2019; 31:e1806598. [PMID: 30844122 PMCID: PMC9285551 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201806598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2018] [Revised: 01/31/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The intense research effort investigating magnetic skyrmions and their applications for spintronics has yielded reports of more exotic objects including the biskyrmion, which consists of a bound pair of counter-rotating vortices of magnetization. Biskyrmions have been identified only from transmission electron microscopy images and have not been observed by other techniques, nor seen in simulations carried out under realistic conditions. Here, quantitative Lorentz transmission electron microscopy, X-ray holography, and micromagnetic simulations are combined to search for biskyrmions in MnNiGa, a material in which they have been reported. Only type-I and type-II magnetic bubbles are found and images purported to show biskyrmions can be explained as type-II bubbles viewed at an angle to their axes. It is not the magnetization but the magnetic flux density resulting from this object that forms the counter-rotating vortices.
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- James C. Loudon
- Department of Materials Science and MetallurgyUniversity of Cambridge27 Charles Babbage RoadCambridgeCB3 0FSUK
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- Faculty of Engineering and Physical SciencesUniversity of SouthamptonSouthamptonSO17 1BJUK
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- Department of PhysicsUniversity of DurhamDurhamDH1 3LEUK
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- Department of PhysicsUniversity of WarwickCoventryCV4 7ALUK
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- School of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of ExeterExeterEX4 4QLUK
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- School of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of ExeterExeterEX4 4QLUK
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- School of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of ExeterExeterEX4 4QLUK
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- Synchrotron SOLEILSaint Aubin, BP 4891192Gif‐sur‐YvetteFrance
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- Faculty of Engineering and Physical SciencesUniversity of SouthamptonSouthamptonSO17 1BJUK
- European XFEL GmbHHolzkoppel 422869SchenefeldGermany
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- Faculty of Engineering and Physical SciencesUniversity of SouthamptonSouthamptonSO17 1BJUK
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- Faculty of Engineering and Physical SciencesUniversity of SouthamptonSouthamptonSO17 1BJUK
- European XFEL GmbHHolzkoppel 422869SchenefeldGermany
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- Department of Materials Science and MetallurgyUniversity of Cambridge27 Charles Babbage RoadCambridgeCB3 0FSUK
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Popescu H, Perron J, Pilette B, Vacheresse R, Pinty V, Gaudemer R, Sacchi M, Delaunay R, Fortuna F, Medjoubi K, Desjardins K, Luning J, Jaouen N. COMET: a new end-station at SOLEIL for coherent magnetic scattering in transmission. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2019; 26:280-290. [PMID: 30655496 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577518016612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2018] [Accepted: 11/22/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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A new instrument named COMET for COherent Magnetic scattering Experiments in Transmission using polarized soft X-rays has been designed and built. This high-vacuum setup is placed at the intermediate focal point of the elastic branch of the SEXTANTS beamline at Synchrotron SOLEIL. The main application is in solid state physics, the instrument being optimized for studying material properties using coherent scattering of soft X-rays with an emphasis on imaging, with chemical selectivity, the magnetic domains of artificially nano-structured materials. The instrument's principal features are presented and illustrated through recently performed experiments.
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- H Popescu
- Synchrotron Soleil, Saint-Aubin, BP 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Synchrotron Soleil, Saint-Aubin, BP 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique - Matière et Rayonnement, LCP-MR, 75005 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique - Matière et Rayonnement, LCP-MR, 75005 Paris, France
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- Synchrotron Soleil, Saint-Aubin, BP 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Synchrotron Soleil, Saint-Aubin, BP 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Synchrotron Soleil, Saint-Aubin, BP 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique - Matière et Rayonnement, LCP-MR, 75005 Paris, France
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- CSNSM, Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 104, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Synchrotron Soleil, Saint-Aubin, BP 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Synchrotron Soleil, Saint-Aubin, BP 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique - Matière et Rayonnement, LCP-MR, 75005 Paris, France
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- Synchrotron Soleil, Saint-Aubin, BP 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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Investigation of magnetic droplet solitons using x-ray holography with extended references. Sci Rep 2018; 8:11533. [PMID: 30069062 PMCID: PMC6070566 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29856-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2017] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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A dissipative magnetic soliton, or magnetic droplet, is a structure that has been predicted to exist within a thin magnetic layer when non-linearity is balanced by dispersion, and a driving force counteracts the inherent damping of the spin precession. Such a soliton can be formed beneath a nano-contact (NC) that delivers a large spin-polarized current density into a magnetic layer with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Although the existence of droplets has been confirmed from electrical measurements and by micromagnetic simulations, only a few attempts have been made to directly observe the magnetic landscape that sustains these structures, and then only for a restricted set of experimental parameter values. In this work we use and x-ray holography technique HERALDO, to image the magnetic structure of the [Co/Ni]x4 multilayer within a NC orthogonal pseudo spin-valve, for different range of magnetic fields and injected electric currents. The magnetic configuration imaged at −33 mA and 0.3 T for devices with 90 nm NC diameter reveals a structure that is within the range of current where the droplet soliton exist based on our electrical measurements and have it is consistent with the expected size of the droplet (∼100 nm diameter) and its spatial position within the sample. We also report the magnetisation configurations observed at lower DC currents in the presence of fields (0–50 mT), where it is expected to observe regimes of the unstable droplet formation.
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McVitie S, Hughes S, Fallon K, McFadzean S, McGrouther D, Krajnak M, Legrand W, Maccariello D, Collin S, Garcia K, Reyren N, Cros V, Fert A, Zeissler K, Marrows CH. A transmission electron microscope study of Néel skyrmion magnetic textures in multilayer thin film systems with large interfacial chiral interaction. Sci Rep 2018; 8:5703. [PMID: 29632330 PMCID: PMC5890272 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-23799-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2017] [Accepted: 03/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Skyrmions in ultrathin ferromagnetic metal (FM)/heavy metal (HM) multilayer systems produced by conventional sputtering methods have recently generated huge interest due to their applications in the field of spintronics. The sandwich structure with two correctly-chosen heavy metal layers provides an additive interfacial exchange interaction which promotes domain wall or skyrmion spin textures that are Néel in character and with a fixed chirality. Lorentz transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is a high resolution method ideally suited to quantitatively image such chiral magnetic configurations. When allied with physical and chemical TEM analysis of both planar and cross-sectional samples, key length scales such as grain size and the chiral variation of the magnetisation variation have been identified and measured. We present data showing the importance of the grain size (mostly < 10 nm) measured from direct imaging and its potential role in describing observed behaviour of isolated skyrmions (diameter < 100 nm). In the latter the region in which the magnetization rotates is measured to be around 30 nm. Such quantitative information on the multiscale magnetisation variations in the system is key to understanding and exploiting the behaviour of skyrmions for future applications in information storage and logic devices.
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- S McVitie
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom.
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- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom.,Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia
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- Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91767, Palaiseau, France
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- Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91767, Palaiseau, France
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- Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91767, Palaiseau, France
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- Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91767, Palaiseau, France
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- Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91767, Palaiseau, France
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- Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91767, Palaiseau, France
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- Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91767, Palaiseau, France
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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Coherent Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering Study of Magnetic Textures in FeGe. QUANTUM BEAM SCIENCE 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/qubs2010003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Bukin N, McKeever C, Burgos-Parra E, Keatley PS, Hicken RJ, Ogrin FY, Beutier G, Dupraz M, Popescu H, Jaouen N, Yakhou-Harris F, Cavill SA, van der Laan G. Time-resolved imaging of magnetic vortex dynamics using holography with extended reference autocorrelation by linear differential operator. Sci Rep 2016; 6:36307. [PMID: 27796347 PMCID: PMC5087091 DOI: 10.1038/srep36307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2016] [Accepted: 10/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The magnetisation dynamics of the vortex core and Landau pattern of magnetic thin-film elements has been studied using holography with extended reference autocorrelation by linear differential operator (HERALDO). Here we present the first time-resolved x-ray measurements using this technique and investigate the structure and dynamics of the domain walls after excitation with nanosecond pulsed magnetic fields. It is shown that the average magnetisation of the domain walls has a perpendicular component that can change dynamically depending on the parameters of the pulsed excitation. In particular, we demonstrate the formation of wave bullet-like excitations, which are generated in the domain walls and can propagate inside them during the cyclic motion of the vortex core. Based on numerical simulations we also show that, besides the core, there are four singularities formed at the corners of the pattern. The polarisation of these singularities has a direct relation to the vortex core, and can be switched dynamically by the wave bullets excited with a magnetic pulse of specific parameters. The subsequent dynamics of the Landau pattern is dependent on the particular configuration of the polarisations of the core and the singularities.
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- N. Bukin
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QL, United Kingdom
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QL, United Kingdom
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QL, United Kingdom
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QL, United Kingdom
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QL, United Kingdom
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QL, United Kingdom
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- Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- SOLEIL Synchrotron, 91192 Saint-Aubin, France
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- SOLEIL Synchrotron, 91192 Saint-Aubin, France
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, F-38043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- Department of Physics, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom
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Fischer P, Ohldag H. X-rays and magnetism. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2015; 78:094501. [PMID: 26288956 DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/78/9/094501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Magnetism is among the most active and attractive areas in modern solid state physics because of intriguing phenomena interesting to fundamental research and a manifold of technological applications. State-of-the-art synthesis of advanced magnetic materials, e.g. in hybrid structures paves the way to new functionalities. To characterize modern magnetic materials and the associated magnetic phenomena, polarized x-rays have emerged as unique probes due to their specific interaction with magnetic materials. A large variety of spectroscopic and microscopic techniques have been developed to quantify in an element, valence and site-sensitive way properties of ferro-, ferri-, and antiferromagnetic systems, such as spin and orbital moments, and to image nanoscale spin textures and their dynamics with sub-ns time and almost 10 nm spatial resolution. The enormous intensity of x-rays and their degree of coherence at next generation x-ray facilities will open the fsec time window to magnetic studies addressing fundamental time scales in magnetism with nanometer spatial resolution. This review will give an introduction into contemporary topics of nanoscale magnetic materials and provide an overview of analytical spectroscopy and microscopy tools based on x-ray dichroism effects. Selected examples of current research will demonstrate the potential and future directions of these techniques.
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- Peter Fischer
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Physics Department, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 94056, USA
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Abrudan R, Brüssing F, Salikhov R, Meermann J, Radu I, Ryll H, Radu F, Zabel H. ALICE—An advanced reflectometer for static and dynamic experiments in magnetism at synchrotron radiation facilities. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2015; 86:063902. [PMID: 26133845 DOI: 10.1063/1.4921716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We report on significant developments of a high vacuum reflectometer (diffractometer) and spectrometer for soft x-ray synchrotron experiments which allows conducting a wide range of static and dynamic experiments. Although the chamber named ALICE was designed for the analysis of magnetic hetero- and nanostructures via resonant magnetic x-ray scattering, the instrument is not limited to this technique. The versatility of the instrument was testified by a series of pilot experiments. Static measurements involve the possibility to use scattering and spectroscopy synchrotron based techniques (photon-in photon-out, photon-in electron-out, and coherent scattering). Dynamic experiments require either laser or magnetic field pulses to excite the spin system followed by x-ray probe in the time domain from nano- to femtosecond delay times. In this temporal range, the demagnetization/remagnetization dynamics and magnetization precession in a number of magnetic materials (metals, alloys, and magnetic multilayers) can be probed in an element specific manner. We demonstrate here the capabilities of the system to host a variety of experiments, featuring ALICE as one of the most versatile and demanded instruments at the Helmholtz Center in Berlin-BESSY II synchrotron center in Berlin, Germany.
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- R Abrudan
- Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum-Berlin for Materials and Energy, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum-Berlin for Materials and Energy, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum-Berlin for Materials and Energy, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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Radaelli PG, Dhesi SS. The contribution of Diamond Light Source to the study of strongly correlated electron systems and complex magnetic structures. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2015; 373:rsta.2013.0148. [PMID: 25624510 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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We review some of the significant contributions to the field of strongly correlated materials and complex magnets, arising from experiments performed at the Diamond Light Source (Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK) during the first few years of operation (2007-2014). We provide a comprehensive overview of Diamond research on topological insulators, multiferroics, complex oxides and magnetic nanostructures. Several experiments on ultrafast dynamics, magnetic imaging, photoemission electron microscopy, soft X-ray holography and resonant magnetic hard and soft X-ray scattering are described.
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- P G Radaelli
- Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot OX11 0DE, UK
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Tenner VT, Eikema KSE, Witte S. Fourier transform holography with extended references using a coherent ultra-broadband light source. OPTICS EXPRESS 2014; 22:25397-409. [PMID: 25401573 DOI: 10.1364/oe.22.025397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We demonstrate a technique that enables lensless holographic imaging with extended reference structures, using ultra-broadband radiation sources for illumination. We show that this 'two-pulse imaging' approach works with one- and two-dimensional HERALDO reference structures, and demonstrate that the obtained spectrally resolved data can be used to improve the signal-to-noise ratio in the final image. Intensity stitching of multiple exposures is applied to increase the detected dynamic range, leading to an improved image reconstruction. Furthermore, we show that a combination of holography and iterative phase retrieval can be used to obtain high-quality images quickly and reliably, by using the HERALDO reconstruction as the initial support constraint in the iterative phase retrieval algorithm. A signal-to-noise improvement of two orders of magnitude is achieved compared to the basic HERALDO result.
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van der Laan G, Figueroa AI. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism—A versatile tool to study magnetism. Coord Chem Rev 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2014.03.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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