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Review of Scientific Instruments -- January 2001 -- Volume 72, Issue 1 pp. 163-172

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Spin-resolved off-specular neutron scattering maps from magnetic multilayers using a polarized 3He gas spin filter

B. Nickel, A. Rühm, W. Donner, J. Major, and H. Dosch
Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Institut für Theoretische und Angewandte Physik, Universität Stuttgart, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
A. Schreyer and H. Zabel
Institut für Experimentalphysik/Festkörperphysik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
H. Humblot
Institute Laue-Langevin, 6, rue Jules Horowitz, BP 156, F-38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France

(Received 18 April 2000; accepted 3 October 2000)

We report on the application of the polarized 3He gas spin filter technique for the measurement of spin-polarized diffuse neutron reflectivity with spin analysis. The spin filter together with a one-dimensional position-sensitive detector enables the simultaneous investigation of sections in reciprocal space while exploiting spin sensitivity. An example of diffuse neutron scattering from a Fe/Cr superlattice demonstrates the potential of the method. In addition we present a first step towards the interpretation of diffuse scattering from magnetic multilayers by exploiting the supermatrix formalism. ©2001 American Institute of Physics.


DOI: 10.1063/1.1328403
PACS: 75.25.+z, 75.70.Cn, 61.12.Ex        Additional Information

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