Quantifying chiral exchange interaction for Néel-type skyrmions via Lorentz transmission electron microscopy

Observation of stable Néel skyrmions in cobalt/palladium multilayers with Lorentz transmission electron microscopy

Néel skyrmions are of high interest due to their potential applications in a variety of spintronic devices, currently accessible in ultrathin heavy metal/ferromagnetic bilayers and multilayers with a strong Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Here we report on the direct imaging of chiral spin structures including skyrmions in an exchange-coupled cobalt/palladium multilayer at room temperature w...

Recent Progress in Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscopy

After a brief review of the basic methods of Lorentz transmission electron microscopy (LTEM), including the Transport-of-Intensity formalism for phase reconstruction, we present a few examples of the application of LTEM to multiferroic materials, in this case ferromagnetic shape memory alloys. We discuss observations of magnetic domain walls pinned to anti-phase boundaries in Ni2MnGa, and domai...

Metal-graphene interaction studied via atomic resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy.

Distributions and atomic sites of transition metals and gold on suspended graphene were investigated via high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy, especially using atomic resolution high angle dark field imaging. All metals, albeit as singular atoms or atom aggregates, reside in the omni-present hydrocarbon surface contamination; they do not form continuous films, but clusters ...

Diagnostic Transmission Electron Microscopy

The high resolution and sensitivity of electron microscopy is still a valuable tool, and for some diseases it is the gold standard in pathological diagnosis. Today the sample turnaround time for processing in the lab can be significantly reduced from days to hours by the microwave technology. In urgent clinical cases, microwaveassisted tissue processing, in combination with digital image acquis...

Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy of Metal- Graphene Interaction