Lensless imaging of magnetic nanostructures by X-ray spectro-holography

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7019, 2004, Pages 885-888

  Eisebitt, S ^a   Luning J ^b   Schlotter, W F ^b,c   Lorgen M ^a   Hellwig, O ^a,d   Eberhardt, W ^a   Stohr J ^b  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HITACHI AMERICA LTD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY SCATTERING;

DICHROISM EFFECTS; DIFFRACTION PATTERNS; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED RESOLUTION; REAL-SPACE ATOMIC MAPS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

COBALT; PLATINUM;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; MAGNETISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY;

EID: 11144322219     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03139     Document Type: Article

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