Magnetic Circular Dichroism Spectra of Amino Acid Complexes of the [CoIII(N)5(O)]n+Type

Magnetic circular dichroism of porphyrin lanthanide M3+ complexes.

Lanthanide complexes exhibit interesting spectroscopic properties yielding many applications as imaging probes, natural chirality amplifiers, and therapeutic agents. However, many properties are not fully understood yet. Therefore, we applied magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectroscopy, which provides enhanced information about the underlying electronic structure to a series of lanthanide co...

Unexpected Film Thickness Effect in Magnetic Circular Dichroism Spectra

Microscopic measurement of circular dichroism spectra.

A microscope device to measure the circular dichroism (CD) spectra of a specified microscopic region of chiral samples was constructed by combining of a couple of objective lenses and a CCD camera, which was installed in a sample chamber of a commercially available CD spectropolarimeter. By using this apparatus, high quality micro-CD spectra in the 60 x 60 microm region of samples could be meas...

Magnetic circular dichroism in the soft-x-ray absorption spectra of Mn-based magnetic intermetallic compounds

We have investigated the magnetic electronic structures of PtMnSb, NiMnSb, Ni2MnSb,MnSb, MnAlGe, and Mn2Sb by soft-x-ray absorption spectroscopy ~XAS! and magnetic circular dichroism ~MCD! measurements in the Mn 2p core absorption region. Different degrees of the electron itinerancy of the Mn 3d states are discussed. The large orbital angular momentum of the Mn 3d electrons is revealed for MnSb...

The role of the spin polarization in x-ray magnetic circular dichroism spectra of itinerant magnets

Applications of x-ray magnetic circular and linear dichroism (XMCD and XMLD) are reviewed in the soft x-ray region, covering the photon energy range 0.4-2 keV, which includes important absorption edges such as the 3d transition metal L2,3 and rare earth M4,5. These techniques enable a broad range of novel and exciting studies such as on the electronic properties and magnetic ordering of novel n...