X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study of Thickness Effects on the Structural and Magnetic Properties of Pr_2−δNi_1−xMn_1+xO_6−y Double Perovsk... by Mónica Bernal-Salamanca, Javier Herrero-Martín, Zorica Konstantinović, Lluis Balcells, Alberto Pomar, Benjamín Martínez, Carlos Frontera

“…In addition, the electronic structure of some characteristic PNMO samples is deeply analyzed using X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) measurements and compared with theoretical simulations. …”
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Differentiating Nanomaghemite and Nanomagnetite and Discussing Their Importance in Arsenic and Lead Removal from Contaminated Effluents: A Critical Review by Juan A. Ramos-Guivar, Diego A. Flores-Cano, Edson Caetano Passamani

“…We specifically highlight the main differences between both nano-oxide species based on conventional techniques, such as X-ray diffraction, zero and in-field Mössbauer spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, the latter two techniques performed with synchrotron light. …”
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Strain-mediated spin-orbit torque enhancement in Pt/Co on flexible substrate by Wong, Grayson Dao Hwee, Xu, Zhan, Gan, Weiliang, Ang, Calvin Ching Ian, Law, Wai Cheung, Tang, Jiaxuan, Zhang, Wen, Wong, Ping Kwan Johnny, Yu, Xiaojiang, Xu, Feng, Wee, Andrew T. S., Seet, Chim Seng, Lew, Wen Siang

“…Spin transparency and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism revealed that the enhancement was attributed to a bulk effect in the Pt layer. …”
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Unraveling how electronic and spin structures control macroscopic properties of manganite ultra-thin films by Yin, Xinmao, Majidi, Muhammad Aziz, Chi, Xiao, Ren, Peng, You, Lu, Palina, Natalia, Yu, Xiaojiang, Diao, Caozheng, Schmidt, Daniel, Wang, Baomin, Yang, Ping, Breese, Mark B H, Wang, Junling, Rusydi, Andrivo

“…Here, using a combination of transport, spectroscopic ellipsometry, X-ray absorption spectroscopy and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, we observe two concomitant electronic and magnetic phases (insulating paramagnetic phase for T>195 K and insulating canted-ferromagnetic for T<140 K) with an intermediate metal-like state in ultra-thin La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 (LSMO) film on DyScO3 substrate. …”
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Investigating Nanoscale Electron Transfer Processes at the Cell-Mineral Interface in Cobalt-Doped Ferrihydrite Using Geobacter sulfurreducens: A Multi-Technique Approach by Dawn M. Buchanan, Laura Newsome, Jonathan R. Lloyd, Majid Kazemian, Burkhard Kaulich, Tohru Araki, Heath Bagshaw, John Waters, Gerrit van der Laan, Alpha N’Diaye, Victoria S. Coker

“…Magnetite [Fe(II)/Fe(III)3O4] production was confirmed by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), SXM and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) data, where best fits of the latter suggested Co-bearing magnetite. …”
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Imaging the magnetic nanowire cross section and magnetic ordering within a suspended 3D artificial spin-ice by Edward Harding, Tohru Araki, Joseph Askey, Matthew Hunt, Arjen Van Den Berg, David Raftrey, Lucia Aballe, Burkhard Kaulich, Emyr MacDonald, Peter Fischer, Sam Ladak

“…In this work, a method is developed to fabricate 3DASI lattices over an aperture using two-photon lithography, thermal evaporation, and oxygen plasma exposure, allowing the probe of element-specific structural and magnetic information using soft x-ray microscopy with x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) as magnetic contrast. …”
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Pressure-induced charge orders and their postulated coupling to magnetism in hexagonal multiferroic LuFe2O4 by Fengliang Liu, Yiqing Hao, Jinyang Ni, Yongsheng Zhao, Dongzhou Zhang, Gilberto Fabbris, Daniel Haskel, Shaobo Cheng, Xiaoshan Xu, Lifeng Yin, Hongjun Xiang, Jun Zhao, Xujie Lü, Wenbin Wang, Jian Shen, Wenge Yang

“…Experimental in situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism measurements combined with density functional theory calculations suggest that the charge density redistribution caused by pressure-induced compression in the frustrated double-layer [Fe2O4] cluster is responsible for the correlated spin-charge phase transitions. …”
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Measurement of the Induced Magnetic Polarisation of Rotated-Domain Graphene Grown on Co Film with Polarised Neutron Reflectivity by Razan Omar M. Aboljadayel, Christy John Kinane, Carlos Antonio Fernandes Vaz, David Michael Love, Marie-Blandine Martin, Andrea Cabrero-Vilatela, Philipp Braeuninger-Weimer, Adrian Ionescu, Andrew John Caruana, Timothy Randall Charlton, Justin Llandro, Pedro Manuel da Silva Monteiro, Crispin Henry William Barnes, Stephan Hofmann, Sean Langridge

“…A magnetic signal in the graphene was detected by X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) spectra at the C <i>K</i>-edge. …”
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Structure, morphology, and magnetic properties of Fe nanoparticles deposited onto single-crystalline surfaces by Armin Kleibert, Wolfgang Rosellen, Mathias Getzlaff, Joachim Bansmann

“…We use a combined approach of X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to shed light on the complex and size-dependent relation between magnetic properties, crystallographic structure, orientation and morphology. …”
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Magnetisation configuration in arrays of permalloy rectangles and its impact on magnetisation reversal by P J Newton, N B Devlin, S M Masur, M Ghidini, D Backes, F Maccherozzi, A A Pacheco-Pumaleque, M A González Esqueche, C H W Barnes

“…The remanent domain structures of composite element magnetic barcodes have been imaged using photo-emission electron microscopy with contrast from x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD-PEEM) and analysed with reference to the results of micromagnetic simulations. …”
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Origin of microscopically coupled ferromagnetic Cu-ions in a distorted system of Cu-doped ZnO and their synchrotron-based electronic structures by A. Kumar, T. Ghosh, Z. Aabdin, J. Roy, V. K. Verma, A. Ghosh, S. K. Sahoo, R. Urkude, S. Bhunia, U. K. Goutam, K. Amemiya, A. Kandasami, V. R. Singh

“…The values of spin-moment obtained from x-ray magnetic circular dichroism sum-rule truly exhibit a ferromagnetic interaction in the nanocrystalline powder of ZCO with ∼0.58 μB for 5% of Cu concentration in the total fluorescence yield mode. …”
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Modulating above-room-temperature magnetism in Ga-implanted Fe5GeTe2 van der Waals magnets by Yanan Yuan, Daxiang Liu, Jingjing Yu, Guanhua Zhang, Xiang Chen, Ruiqi Liu, Siyu Wang, Fangfang Pei, Long Wei, Zhi Li, Junming Guo, Shouguo Wang, Zhaoliang Liao, Wensheng Yan, Ziqiang Qiu, Mengmeng Yang, Qian Li

“…The room-temperature x-ray magnetic circular dichroism signal is enhanced from 0% to 9% at an implantation level of 10−2 Ga+·Å−3. …”
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Switching and imaging of magnetic structures in iron oxides by Chen, J

“…Furthermore, the imaging of the multiferroic phase is performed on the two-fold fan structure by utilising the X-ray magnetic circular dichroism effect. The manipulation of the magnetic domain is tried by static electric voltage and THz electric pulses; the experiment results show that the multiferroicity in Y-type hexaferrite can be switched in domain scale by an external electric field, even likely at a transient time scale of picoseconds. …”

Large effect of metal substrate on magnetic anisotropy of Co on hexagonal boron nitride by Iker Gallardo, Andres Arnau, Fernando Delgado, Romana Baltic, Aparajita Singha, Fabio Donati, Christian Wäckerlin, Jan Dreiser, Stefano Rusponi, Harald Brune

“…We combine x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) and x-ray magnetic linear dichroism (XMLD) data with first principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations and a multiorbital many-body Hamiltonian approach to understand the electronic and magnetic properties of Co atoms adsorbed on h-BN/Ru(0001) and h-BN/Ir(111). …”
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Study of the structural, electric and magnetic properties of Mn-doped Bi2Te3 single crystals by M D Watson, L J Collins-McIntyre, L R Shelford, A I Coldea, D Prabhakaran, S C Speller, T Mousavi, C R M Grovenor, Z Salman, S R Giblin, G van der Laan, T Hesjedal

“…Hall measurements on different crystals established that these systems are n -doped with carrier concentrations of ∼ 0.5–3.0 × 10 ^20  cm ^−3 . X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) at the Mn L _2,3 edge at 1.8 K reveals a large spin magnetic moment of 4.3(3)  μ _B /Mn, and a small orbital magnetic moment of 0.18(2)  μ _B /Mn. …”
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Irradiation-induced enhancement of Fe and Al magnetic polarizations in Fe60Al40 films by A Smekhova, Th Szyjka, E La Torre, K Ollefs, B Eggert, B Cöster, F Wilhelm, R Bali, J Lindner, A Rogalev, D Többens, E Weschke, C Luo, K Chen, F Radu, C Schmitz-Antoniak, H Wende

“…In a course of the transition induced by 20 keV Ne ^+ irradiation with low fluences (∼10 ^14  ions cm ^−2 ), x-ray magnetic circular dichroism spectra taken at the Fe L $_{2,3}$ absorption edges at room and low temperatures revealed a pronounced increase of Fe $3\textit{d}$ states spin-polarization. …”
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Tailoring of magnetic anisotropy and interfacial spin dynamics by Baker, A

“…</p> <p>This thesis presents an investigation into the magnetodynamics of ferromagnetic thin films and heterostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy and studied using vector-network analyser ferromagnetic resonance (VNA-FMR), x-ray magnetic circular dichroism, vibrating sample magnetometry and x-ray detected ferromagnetic resonance (XFMR). …”

Microstructures and Interface Magnetic Moments in Mn₂VAl/Fe Layered Films Showing Exchange Bias by Takahide Kubota, Yusuke Shimada, Tomoki Tsuchiya, Tomoki Yoshikawa, Keita Ito, Yukiharu Takeda, Yuji Saitoh, Toyohiko J. Konno, Akio Kimura, Koki Takanashi

“…To clarify the microscopic aspects on the crystal structures and magnetic moments around the Mn<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mn>2</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>VAl/Fe interface, cross-sectional scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) observation, and synchrotron soft X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) measurements were employed. …”
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Transition-metal doped Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3 topological insulator thin films by Collins-McIntyre, L, Liam J. Collins-McIntyre

“…Mn-doped Bi₂Se₃ thin films were grown by MBE and their magnetic properties investigated by superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometry and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD). These reveal a saturation magnetisation of 5.1 μ_B/Mn and show the formation of short-range magnetic order at 2.5 K (from XMCD) with indication of a ferromagnetic ground state forming below 1.5 K.…”

Engineering Chemisorption of Fe4 Single‐Molecule Magnets on Gold by Lorenzo Poggini, Erik Tancini, Chiara Danieli, Andrea Luigi Sorrentino, Giulia Serrano, Alessandro Lunghi, Luigi Malavolti, Giuseppe Cucinotta, Anne‐Laure Barra, Amélie Juhin, Marie‐Anne Arrio, Weibin Li, Edwige Otero, Philippe Ohresser, Loïc Joly, Jean Paul Kappler, Federico Totti, Philippe Sainctavit, Andrea Caneschi, Roberta Sessoli, Andrea Cornia, Matteo Mannini

“…This preferential orientation is most pronounced in monolayers of the shortest‐chain derivative, which are further studied with an ultralow temperature X‐ray magnetic circular dichroism setup operating down to 350 mK. …”
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