Anisotropic x-ray magnetic linear dichroism at the Fe L2,3 edgesin Fe3O4 [electronic resource].
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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2006. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
X-ray magnetic linear dichroism at the Fe L{sub 2,3} edges of the ferrimagnet Fe₃O₄ was found to exhibit a strong dependence on the relative orientation of external magnetic field, x-ray polarization, and crystalline axes. Spectral shape and magnitude of the effect were determined for Fe₃O₄(011) and Fe₃O₄(001) thin films varying the in-plane orientation of field and polarization. All dichroism spectra can be described as a linear combination of three fundamental spectra which in turn give a good agreement with calculated spectra using atomic multiplet theory. The angular dependence of the magnetic dichroism reflects the crystal field symmetry. It can be used to estimate the crystal field splitting and allows determining the spin quantization axis.
Published through SciTech Connect. 04/30/2006. "lbnl--60071" ": KC0204016" Physical Review B 74 ISSN 0163-1829; PRBMDO FT Arenholz, Elke; van der Laan, Gerrit; Chopdekar, Rajesh V.; Suzuki, Yuri. Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)