The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
Ten years of EMCD: what has been achieved
Energy loss magnetic chiral dichroism (EMCD), established in 2006 [1] celebrates its 10th anniversary. EMCD is the TEM equivalent of the X-ray magnetic circular dichroism…The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
Nanoscale maps of magnetic behavior using STEM-EMCD
Key to the advancement of magnetic materials is the exploitation of emergent magnetic behavior arising from nanoscale confinement. A comprehensive understanding of this behavior requires…The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
Towards atomic magnetic measurements with single electron vortex beams on FePt nanocubes
X-ray magnetic circular dichroism is a well-established method to study element specific magnetic properties of a material, while electron energy-loss magnetic chiral dichroism (EMCD), which…The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
Towards EMCD with an electron vortex filter
The electrons’ wavefront can be arbitrarily shaped by placing holographic masks (HMs) in the condenser system of a TEM. Using HMs with dislocation gratings, it…The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
Quantifying magnetism on the nanometer scale: EMCD on individual FePt nanoparticles
Electron energy-loss magnetic chiral dichroism (EMCD), which is the electron wave analogue of X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), offers the possibility to study magnetic properties…The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
Separating Magnetic and Non-magnetic Signals at the Fe/MgO Interface
Despite various efforts, it remains an experimentally challenging task to access magnetic properties at(sub) nanoscale. One route towards a direct measurement of magnetism is the…The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
In-situ observation of structural transition, ferromagnetic order breaking and magnetocrystalline anisotropy by EMCD in MnAs/GaAs(001)
EMCD (Energy-Loss Magnetic Chiral Dichoism), an emerging technique based on energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) in a transmission electron microscopy (TEM) [1-2], aims at…The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
Novel spectroscopy with atomic-size aberrated electron probes in stem
it has been theoretically argued that atomic-size electron probes with customized phase distributions can detect electron magnetic circular dichroism (EMCD) [1]. Based on this prediction…The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
Convergent-Beam EMCD: Benefits, Pitfalls, and Applications
Energy-loss magnetic chiral dichroism (EMCD) [1] is a state-of-the-art technique to measure magnetic properties on the nanoscale using TEM and EELS. Since its first experimental…The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
EMCD investigation of the Verwey-transition in magnetite
Magnetite is of interest in physics as well as in chemistry, for example because of its surface chemistry [1]. Furthermore, the investigation of the magnetic…