Microwave soft x-ray microscopy for nanoscale magnetization dynamics in the 5-10 GHz frequency range.

@article{Bonetti2015MicrowaveSX,
  title={Microwave soft x-ray microscopy for nanoscale magnetization dynamics in the 5-10 GHz frequency range.},
  author={Stefano Bonetti and Roopali Kukreja and Zhao Chen and Detlef Spoddig and Katharina Ollefs and Christian Sch{\"o}ppner and Ralf Meckenstock and Andreas Ney and J. Pinto and Richard Houanche and Josef C. Frisch and Joachim St{\"o}hr and Hermann A. D{\"u}rr and Hendrik Ohldag},
  journal={The Review of scientific instruments},
  year={2015},
  volume={86 9},
  pages={
          093703
        }
}
We present a scanning transmission x-ray microscopy setup combined with a novel microwave synchronization scheme for studying high frequency magnetization dynamics at synchrotron light sources. The sensitivity necessary to detect small changes in the magnetization on short time scales and nanometer spatial dimensions is achieved by combining the excitation mechanism with single photon counting electronics that is locked to the synchrotron operation frequency. Our instrument is capable of… 
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