X-ray Magnetic Linear Dichroism (XMLD) uses the differential absorption of horizontal and vertical linear polarised light in a magnetic field to examine magnetic materials and properties. This includes the behaviour of bulk materials, thin films and multilayers, magnetic nanostructures and clusters, and spin transport systems. It has been used to study phenomena such as exchange biasing and magnetic anisotropy. It is element-specific and surface sensitive. Used alongside X-ray absorption spectroscopy it can provide complementary information on electronic structure, which is of interest to a broad range of disciplines covering physics, chemistry, materials science, surface science, life sciences, earth sciences, bio-manufacturing and catalysis research.
Polarised soft X-rays have had an enormous impact on our understanding of magnetic phenomena and magnetic (nano)materials. XMCD and XMLD have allowed insights into the origin of fundamental effects such exchange bias and magnetic anisotropy.
The Materials and Magnetism beamline provides a unique, world-class single crystal X-ray diffraction facility for studying a diverse range of materials.
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The Coherent Soft X-ray Imaging and Diffraction (CSXID) beamline will be one of the three flagship beamlines in the Diamond-II upgrade programme, and will provide a range of high-resolution coherent imaging techniques including ptychography and holography.
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I06 is a polarised spectroscopy and microscopy beamline equipped with a PEEM, 6 T low temperature (1.5 K) superconducting magnet, 2 T vector magnet as well as soft X-ray diffraction vacuum goniometer.
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I10 is a beamline for the study of electronic and magnetic structure using soft X-ray resonant scattering (reflection and diffraction) and X-ray absorption. It allows a broad range of studies focused on the spectroscopic properties and magnetic ordering of novel nanostructured systems
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