Influence of plural scattering on the quantitative determination of spin and orbital moments in electron magnetic circular dichroism measurements
Abstract
Recent quantitative measurements of the orbital to spin magnetic moment ratio mL/mS in electron magnetic circular dichroism (EMCD) experiments have given a mL/mS ratio that is larger than commonly accepted values. We demonstrate here that plural scattering may noticeably influence the mL/mS ratio. An equation is derived which describes its influence as a function of the spectral integrals of the plasmon scattering region and zero-loss peak. The influence of the electron-plasmon scattering can be removed when electron energy-loss spectra of the ionization edge are deconvoluted by the low-loss signal. For a bcc-Fe sample we obtain mL/mS=0.04 after plasmon removal. We conclude that the plural scattering should be considered when extracting quantitative information from EMCD measurements.
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