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A closer look at spin textures

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Lorentz electron ptychography, a coherent diffractive imaging method, unveils magnetization singularities in a skyrmion lattice in FeGe and captures subtle internal structures near the skyrmion cores, boundaries, and dislocations.

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Fig. 1: Lorentz electron ptychography and the phase retrieval algorithm.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Jianwei Miao

  2. STROBE National Science Foundation Science & Technology Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

    Jianwei Miao & Margaret M. Murnane

  3. Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado and NIST, Boulder, CO, USA

    Margaret M. Murnane

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Miao, J., Murnane, M.M. A closer look at spin textures. Nat. Nanotechnol. 18, 1–2 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01262-6

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