Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Observation of nanoscale magnetic fields using twisted electron beams

  • Vincenzo Grillo,
  • Tyler R. Harvey,
  • Federico Venturi,
  • Jordan S. Pierce,
  • Roberto Balboni,
  • Frédéric Bouchard,
  • Gian Carlo Gazzadi,
  • Stefano Frabboni,
  • Amir H. Tavabi,
  • Zi-An Li,
  • Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski,
  • Robert W. Boyd,
  • Benjamin J. McMorran,
  • Ebrahim Karimi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00829-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Beyond high resolving power, electron microscopy can be used to study both the electronic and magnetic properties of a sample. Here, Grillo et al. combine electron vortex beams with holographic detection to measure out-of-plane nanoscale magnetic fields.