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In Situ Lorentz Microscopy and Electron Holography Magnetization Studies of Ferromagnetic Focused Electron Beam Induced Nanodeposits

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Quantitative Lorentz microscopy and electron holography are applied to probe the local magnetic properties of ferromagnetic nanostructures. We show here the possibilities of these techniques for the mapping of the magnetization states of nanoscale ferromagnets grown by focused electron beam induced deposition (FEBID) and for the analysis of the magnetization processes by the in situ application of magnetic fields.

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  1. Laboratorio de Microscopias Avanzadas (LMA), Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragón (INA), E-50018, Zaragoza, Spain

    César Magén, Luis A. Rodríguez & José M. De Teresa

  2. Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50018, Zaragoza, Spain

    César Magén & Luis A. Rodríguez

  3. Fundación ARAID, E-50018, Zaragoza, Spain

    César Magén

  4. Transpyrenean Associated Laboratory for Electron Microscopy (TALEM), CEMES-INA, CNRS-Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    César Magén, Luis A. Rodríguez, Luis E. Serrano-Ramón, Christophe Gatel, Etienne Snoeck & José M. De Teresa

  5. Centre d’Élaboration de Matériaux et des Etudes Structurales (CEMES-CNRS), F-31055 Cedex, Toulouse, France

    Luis A. Rodríguez, Luis E. Serrano-Ramón, Christophe Gatel & Etienne Snoeck

  6. Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón (ICMA), Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, E-50009, Zaragoza, Spain

    José M. De Teresa

  7. Departamento de Física, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

    César Magén

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Magén, C., Rodríguez, L.A., Serrano-Ramón, L.E., Gatel, C., Snoeck, E., De Teresa, J.M. (2017). In Situ Lorentz Microscopy and Electron Holography Magnetization Studies of Ferromagnetic Focused Electron Beam Induced Nanodeposits. In: Kumar, C. (eds) Magnetic Characterization Techniques for Nanomaterials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52780-1_9

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