Imaging nanoscale magnetic structures with polarized soft x-ray photons
Imaging nanoscale magnetic structures and their fast dynamics is scientifically interesting and technologically of highest relevance. The combination of circularly polarized soft X-ray photons which provide a strong X-ray magnetic circular dichroism effect at characteristic X-ray absorption edges, with a high resolution soft X-ray microscope utilizing Fresnel zone plate optics allows to study in a unique way the stochastical behavior in the magnetization reversal process of thin films and the ultrafast dynamics of magnetic vortices and domain walls in confined ferromagnetic structures. Future sources of fsec short and high intense soft X-ray photon pulses hold the promise of magnetic imaging down to fundamental magnetic length and time scales.
- Research Organization:
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Life Sciences Division
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 982050
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-3073E
- Journal Information:
- AAPPS Bulletin, Journal Name: AAPPS Bulletin
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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