Monday, January 21, 2013

1301.4350 (Juan de la Figuera et al.)

Micromagnetism in (001) magnetite by spin-polarized low-energy electron
microscopy
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Juan de la Figuera, Lucía Vergara, Alpha T. N'Diaye, Adrian Quesada, Andreas K. Schmid
Spin-polarized low-energy electron microscopy was used to image a magnetite crystal with (100) surface orientation. Sets of spin-dependent images of magnetic domain patterns observed in this surface were used to map the direction of the magnetization vector with high spatial and angular resolution. We find that domains are magnetized along the surface [110] directions, and domain wall structures include 90{\deg} and 180{\deg} walls. A type of unusually curved domain walls are interpreted as N\'eel-capped surface terminations of 180{\deg} Bloch walls.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4350

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