Neutron Decoherence Imaging for Visualizing Bulk Magnetic Domain Structures

• Published in: Physical Review Letters (ISSN: 0031-9007), vol. 101, num. 025504
• Publication date: 2008

Here we introduce a novel neutron imaging method, which is based on the effect that the spatial coherence of the neutron wave front can be changed through small-angle scattering of neutrons at magnetic domain walls in the specimen. We show that the technique can be used to visualize internal bulk magnetic domain structures that are difficult to access by other techniques. The method is transferable to a wide variety of specimens, extendable to three dimensions, and well suited for investigating materials under the influence of external parameters, as, e.g., external magnetic field, temperature, or pressure.

Reference

• LSXC-ARTICLE-2008-022
• doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.025504
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• URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v101/e025504

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