期刊
ULTRAMICROSCOPY
卷 232, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2021.113395
关键词
Lorentz TEM; Lorentz STEM; 4D-STEM; Skyrmion; FeGe; Magnetic contrast
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资金
- DARPA [D18AP00008]
- Center for Emergent Materials at the Ohio State University
- National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center [DMR-2,011,876]
- Presidential Fellowship of the Ohio State University
Researchers have successfully extracted magnetic contrast from complex background contrast through various methods, achieving real space imaging of nanoscale magnetic behavior, which is crucial for the development of highly integrated spin electronics.
The desire to design and build skyrmion-based devices has led to the need to characterize magnetic textures in thin films of functional materials. This can usually be achieved through the Lorentz transmission electron microscopy (LTEM) and the Lorentz scanning transmission electron microscopy (LSTEM) in thin film cross-section and single crystal specimens. However, direct imaging of the magnetic texture in plan-view samples of thin (< 50 nm) films has proved to be challenging due to the complex background contrast associated with the microstructure and defects, as well as contributions from bending of the specimens. Using a mechanically polished 35 nm plan-view FeGe thin film, we have explored three methods to extract magnetic contrast from the complex background contrast observed; (1) background subtraction in defocused LTEM images, (2) frequency filtered CoM-DPC reconstructed from LSTEM datasets and 3) registration of 4D-STEM datasets acquired at different tilt angles. Using these methods, we have successfully implemented real space imaging of both the helical phase and skyrmion phase. The ability to understand nanoscale magnetic behavior from plan-view thin films is a fundamental step towards development of highly integrated spin electronics.
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