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Magnetic Dichroism Studies of Spintronic Structures

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Abstract

The rise of spintronics has been closely linked with the development of instrumentation in nano-characterization over the past 20 years. The experimental side of spintronic research today has moved to a point where the paramount urgency is to use materials of the highest perfection and homogeneity as well as analysis tools with atomic sensitivity. Such criteria require usually exclusive techniques, dedicated equipment, and extreme physical conditions, such as ultrahigh vacuum, low temperatures, high fields, etc. This chapter presents some of the most advanced experimental tools, i.e., synchrotron-based magnetic dichroism techniques, which have facilitated the studies of many cutting-edge subjects of spintronics, such as the heterojunction interfacial magnetism, magnetic proximity effect, magnetism in diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMSs), doped topological insulators, half-metallic alloys, magnetic domain structures, and spin transfer torque (STT) effect.

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Abbreviations

BCC:

Body-centered cubic

BSE:

Back-scattered electrons

CCD:

Charge-coupled device

CIP:

Current in plane

CPP:

Current perpendicular to plane

DMS:

Diluted magnetic semiconductor

DOS:

Density of state

DRAM:

Dynamic random-access memory

EDX:

Energy dispersive X-ray

EM:

Electron microscope

FET:

Field-effect transistor

FM:

Ferro- or ferrimagnetic material

GMR:

Giant magnetoresistance

HCP:

Hexagonal close packing

HM:

Half metal

I:

Insulator

IT:

Information technology

LCP:

Left circularly polarized

LED:

Light emission diode

ML:

Monolayer

MOKE:

Magneto-optical Kerr effect

MRAM:

Magnetoresistive random-access memory

NM:

Nonmagnetic

RCP:

Right circularly polarized

RE:

Rare earth

RT:

Room temperature

SC:

Semiconductor or Spin Correction factor

SRAM:

Static random-access memory

SV:

Spin valve

TEY:

Total electron yield

TFY:

Total florescence yield

TRS:

Time reversal symmetry

UHV:

Ultrahigh vacuum

XAS:

X-ray absorption spectroscopy

XMCD:

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism

XPEEM:

X-ray photoemission electron microscopy

XPS:

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

XRD:

X-ray diffraction

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    Wenqing Liu, Yongbing Xu, Sameh Hassan & Jill Weaver

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Liu, W., Xu, Y., Hassan, S., Weaver, J., van der Laan, G. (2015). Magnetic Dichroism Studies of Spintronic Structures. In: Xu, Y., Awschalom, D., Nitta, J. (eds) Handbook of Spintronics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7604-3_29-1

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