Magnetic imaging with soft X-ray microscopy

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2427-2431

  Fischer, Peter ^a   Denbeaux, Greg ^b   Eimüller, Thomas ^a   Goll, Dagmar ^a   Schütz, Gisela ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic domains; Magnetic multilayered films; Magnetization reversal; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIZATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

MAGNETIC IMAGING;

MAGNETIC THIN FILMS;

EID: 0036762428     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.803608     Document Type: Article

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