The development of high brightness X-ray sources and high resolution X-ray optics has led
to rapid advances in X-ray microscopy. Scanning microscopes and full-field instruments are …

The scientific and technological exploration of three-dimensional magnetic nanostructures is
an emerging research field that opens the path to exciting novel physical phenomena …

The characterization of nanoscale magnetic structures, their static properties, and fast spin
dynamics with polarized soft X-rays has become an indispensable analytical tool due to the …

Magnetic vortices are characterized by the sense of in-plane magnetization circulation and
by the polarity of the vortex core. With each having two possible states, there are four …

The magnetic vortex in nanopatterned elements is currently attracting enormous interest. A
priori, one would assume that the formation of magnetic vortex states should exhibit a perfect …

Scientific investigations to understand the fascinating behavior of thin magnetic films
originating from fundamental quantum mechanical properties and particular spin coupling …

A single vortex-core switching in a ferromagnetic disk is detected in real time by using a
three-terminal device with the tunneling magnetoresistance junction. We show that the …

Magnetism is among the most active and attractive areas in modern solid state physics
because of intriguing phenomena interesting to fundamental research and a manifold of …

Topological singularities occur as antivortices in ferromagnetic thin-film microstructures.
Antivortices behave as two-dimensional oscillators with a gyrotropic eigenmode which can …

Using a homodyne detection scheme, we show that we can determine the polarity and
chirality of a magnetic vortex in an asymmetric magnetic disk as well as the resonance …