Published 1995 | Version v1
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Magnetic x-ray circular dichroism in spin-polarized photoelectron diffraction

  • 1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States). Chemistry and Materials Science Dept.
  • 2. Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, MI (United States)

Description

The first structural determination with spin-polarized, energy-dependent photoelectron diffraction using circularly-polarized x-rays is reported for Fe films on Cu(001). Circularly-polarized x-rays produce spin-polarized photoelectrons from the Fe 2p doublet, and intensity asymmetries in the 2p3/2 level are observed. Fully spin-specific multiple scattering calculations reproduce the experimentally-determined energy and angular dependences. A new analytical procedure which focuses upon intensity variations due to spin-dependent diffraction is introduced. A sensitivity to local geometric and magnetic structure is demonstrated

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Materials Research Society.
Imprint Place
Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
ISBN
1-55899-277-4
Imprint Title
Applications of synchrotron radiation techniques to materials science II
Imprint Pagination
349 p.
Series
Materials Research Society symposium proceedings, Volume 375.
Journal Page Range
p. 101-104.

Conference

Title
1994 fall meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS).
Dates
28 Nov - 2 Dec 1994.
Place
Boston, MA (United States).

Optional Information

Secondary number(s)
CONF-941144--.