Neutron decoherence imaging for visualizing bulk magnetic domain structures

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Grunzweig C ^a   David, C ^a   Bunk, O ^a   Dierolf, M ^a,d   Frei, G ^a   Kuhne G ^a   Kohlbrecher, J ^a   Schafer R ^b   Lejcek, P ^c   Ronnow H M R ^d   Pfeiffer, F ^a,d  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; DOMAIN WALLS; FERROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETISM; NEUTRONS;

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); DECOHERENCE; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC DOMAIN WALLS (MDW); MAGNETIC-DOMAIN STRUCTURES; NEUTRON IMAGING; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING (SAXS); SPATIAL COHERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONS; WAVE FRONTS;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

EID: 48249111380     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.025504     Document Type: Article

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