3D reconstruction of magnetization from dichroic soft X-ray transmission tomography

The development of magnetic nanostructures for applications in spintronics requires methods capable of visualizing their magnetization. Soft X-ray magnetic imaging combined with circular magnetic dichroism allows nanostructures up to 100–300 nm in thickness to be probed with resolutions of 20–40 nm....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Hierro-Rodríguez, Aurelio, Gürsoy, Doga, Phatak, Charudatta, Quirós, Carlos, Sorrentino, Andrea, Álvarez-Prado, L. M., Vélez, María, Martín, José Ignacio, Alameda, J. M., Pereiro, Eva, Ferrer, Salvador
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/173531
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/173531
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Soft x-ray transmission microscopy
X-ray transmission tomography
Magnetization configuration reconstruction
Vector field tomography
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Sumario:The development of magnetic nanostructures for applications in spintronics requires methods capable of visualizing their magnetization. Soft X-ray magnetic imaging combined with circular magnetic dichroism allows nanostructures up to 100–300 nm in thickness to be probed with resolutions of 20–40 nm. Here a new iterative tomographic reconstruction method to extract the three-dimensional magnetization configuration from tomographic projections is presented. The vector field is reconstructed by using a modified algebraic reconstruction approach based on solving a set of linear equations in an iterative manner. The application of this method is illustrated with two examples (magnetic nano-disc and micro-square heterostructure) along with comparison of error in reconstructions, and convergence of the algorithm.