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Transmission, Scanning Transmission, and Scanning Electron Microscopy

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The properties of magnetic materials are closely related to their microstructure and micromagnetic structures like magnetic domains and spin textures. Electron microscopy is a powerful technique to characterize such features at nanometer resolution. This chapter describes structural characterization and magnetic imaging techniques using (scanning) transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and related techniques.

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Acknowledgments

AS thanks Kanemura T and Shirai M for providing a high-resolution image obtained using Hitachi High-Tech, HF5000. AS also thanks Akashi T, Kasasi H, Takahashi Y, Tanigaki T, Yoshida T, Fukunaga K, Kohashi T, Harada K, Tonomura A, Osakabe N, Shinada H, Otsuka N, Venables JA, Nakamura Y, and Nittono O for helpful discussion and supervision. A special thanks is devoted to Scheinfein MR for providing me a research opportunity of magnetic microscopy in connection with micromagnetic simulations.

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Sugawara, A. (2021). Transmission, Scanning Transmission, and Scanning Electron Microscopy. In: Franco, V., Dodrill, B. (eds) Magnetic Measurement Techniques for Materials Characterization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70443-8_11

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