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P Schattschneider1, S Rubino, C Hébert

  • 1Service Centre for Transmission Electron Microscopy, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10/052, and Institut für Festkörperphysik, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10/138, Technische Universität Wien, A-1040 Wien, Austria. schatt@ifp.tuwien.ac.at

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|May 26, 2006
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Researchers experimentally detected magnetic circular dichroism using electron energy-loss spectroscopy in a transmission electron microscope. This technique, electron energy-loss magnetic chiral dichroism (EMCD), offers nanoscale magnetic imaging without requiring spin-polarized electrons.

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