Element-specific vector magnetometry with magnetic circular dichroism
- 12 June 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 66 (24) , 3368-3370
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.113760
Abstract
The use of soft x‐ray magnetic circular dichroism in two‐dimensional (2D) element‐specific vector magnetometry is demonstrated by investigating a thin Fe(001) single‐crystal filmgrown on ZnSe(001). By measuring element‐specific magnetic hysteresis curves along directions parallel and perpendicular to an applied magnetic field, the 2D behavior of the in‐plane magnetization vector M is described as a function of the applied magnetic field. The use of this method to obtain element‐specific 3D vector magnetometry in magnetic materials that exhibit both in‐plane and out‐of‐plane magnetization is also discussed.Keywords
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