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Transmission X-ray microscopy using X-ray magnetic circular dichroism |
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| Authors: | T Eimüller P Fischer M Köhler M Scholz P Guttmann G Denbeaux S Glück G Bayreuther G Schmahl D Attwood G Schütz |
| Institution: | Universit?t Würzburg, Experimentalphysik IV, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany, DE Universit?t Regensburg, Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Universit?tsstr. 31, 93040 Regensburg, Germany, DE Universit?t G?ttingen, Institut für R?ntgenphysik, Geiststr. 11, 37073 G?ttingen, Germany, DE Center for X-Ray Optics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif. 94720, USA, US |
| Abstract: | X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (X-MCD) was used as a large, element-specific and quantitative magnetic contrast mechanism in the soft X-ray microscopes at BESSY I (Berlin) and the ALS (Berkeley). The present state and potential of magnetic transmission X-ray microscopy (MTXM) is outlined. The possibility to record images in varying magnetic fields and the high spatial resolution down to 25 nm were used to image out-of-plane magnetized (4 ?Fe / 4 ?Gd)×75 systems. Magnetic domains could be studied in arrays of circular and square dots with lateral dimensions down to 180 nm. Hysteresis loops of individual dots were deduced using the direct proportionality of the X-MCD contrast to the sample magnetization. Images of a 3 nmCr / 50 nmFe / 6 nmCr film demonstrate for the first time that MTXM is also able to observe in-plane magnetized domains. In the future the possible applications of MTXM will be extended with regard to the strength of the external field, the available energy range and the sample conditions by building a dedicated transmission X-ray microscope for magnetic imaging at BESSY II. Received: 22 May 2001 / Accepted: 4 July 2001 / Published online: 5 October 2001 |
| Keywords: | PACS: 75 70 Kw 75 60 Ej 07 85 Tt |
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