A software package for the simulation of energy-loss magnetic chiral dichroism

Ultramicroscopy

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 831-835

  Loffler S ^a   Schattschneider, P ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coherence; Electron energy loss spectroscopy; Energy loss magnetic chiral dichroism; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ENERGY LOSS; ENERGY LOSS MAGNETIC CHIRAL DICHROISM; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; ON-THE-FLY; PLANNING OF EXPERIMENTS; SAMPLE THICKNESS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

DICHROISM; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ENERGY LOSS MAGNETIC CHIRAL DICHROISM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; THICKNESS; TILTING;

EID: 77953544024     PISSN: 03043991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2010.02.044     Document Type: Article

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