AVS 46th International Symposium
    Magnetic Interfaces and Nanostructures Technical Group Thursday Sessions
       Session MI+NS-ThA

Paper MI+NS-ThA9
Low Temperature Magnetic Domain Imaging with Spin Polarized Low Energy Electron Microscopy

Thursday, October 28, 1999, 4:40 pm, Room 618/619

Session: Magnetic Imaging
Presenter: E.D. Tober, NCEM, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Authors: E.D. Tober, NCEM, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
G. Witte, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
H. Poppa, NCEM, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Spin Polarized Low Energy Microscopy (SPLEEM) has for the first time been employed to examine magnetic surfaces below room temperature. With the recent addition of a liquid nitrogen based cooling stage for our instrument, we have the ability to achieve sample temperatures in the range of 110 - 2200 K. SPLEEM has the advantages of high spatial resolution (~10.0 nm) and atomic height resolution combined with image acquisition at near video rates. A full description of the system design as well as its application in exploring the magnetic domain formation in thin films of Co grown in situ on Pt(111) and Au(111) surfaces will be presented.