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most citedImaging ferroelectric domains with soft X-ray ptychography at the oxygen K-edge

9 citations · 19 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Vector-field control and emergent basal-plane anisotropy of magnetic textures in noncentrosymmetric (FeNiPd)P

Victor Ukleev, Oleg I. Utesov, Lorenzo Ubilla +17

(FeNiPd)P is a room-temperature magnet with symmetry that hosts a rich variety of topological spin textures. Here, we report a combined resonant…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Topological spin-texture transitions in van der Waals magnets revealed by X-ray Fourier transform holography

Sourav Chowdhury, Soumyaranjan Dash, Michael Schneider +14

Nontrivial topological spin-textures, such as skyrmions, merons, bimerons, and skyrmioniums, are envisioned as robust building blocks for future memory and logic devices. Controlla…

physics.ins-det2026

Scanning through space and time: past, present, and future of time-resolved scanning transmission soft X-ray microscopy

Simone Finizio, Tim A. Butcher, Sebastian Wintz +2

Time-resolved microscopy with the pump-probe protocol is one of the most important techniques for the investigation of dynamical processes at the nanoscale, thanks to the possibili…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Linear dichroic soft X-ray microscopy of ferroelectric stripe domains in epitaxial KNaNbO

M. Schneider, T. A. Butcher, S. Wagner +20

Functional properties of ferroelectric thin films are governed by domains that can be engineered by epitaxial strain. Soft x-ray microscopy can image domain structures with element…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

In-situ Straining of Epitaxial Freestanding Ferroic Films by a MEMS Device

Simone Finizio, Tim A. Butcher, Maria Cocconcelli +10

Mechanical strain can be used to control physical properties in materials. The experimental investigation of strain-induced effects at the nanoscale is of importance not only for i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

A fluctuation-free pathway for a topological magnetic phase transition

Riccardo Battistelli, Lukas Körber, Kai Litzius +27

Topological magnetic textures are particle-like spin configurations stabilized by competing interactions. Their formation is commonly attributed to fluctuation-driven, first-order…

physics.ins-det2025

Supersampled scanning transmission X-ray microscopy for high-resolution vibration-independent time-resolved imaging

Simone Finizio, Benjamin Watts, Benedikt Rösner +4

Scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM) is a nanoscale imaging technique that can utilize several powerful contrast mechanisms for the quantitative mapping of chemical and ph…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Room temperature control of axial and basal antiferromagnetic anisotropies using strain

Jack Harrison, Junxiong Hu, Charles Godfrey +6

Antiferromagnetic materials are promising platforms for the development of ultra-fast spintronics and magnonics due to their robust magnetism, high-frequency relativistic dynamics,…

physics.ins-det2025★ 3 cited

Soft x-ray ptychography with SOPHIE: Guide and instrumentation

Tim A. Butcher, Simone Finizio, Lars Heller +7

Soft x-ray ptychography is becoming a key synchrotron microscopy technique in the fields of condensed matter physics, chemistry, and environmental and life sciences. Its attractive…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 7 cited

Nanoscale Domain Wall Dynamics in Micromagnetic Structures with Weak Perpendicular Anisotropy

Tim A. Butcher, Nicholas W. Phillips, Abraham L. Levitan +4

Time-resolved pump-probe soft X-ray ptychography and Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy (STXM) were employed to study the magnetic domain wall dynamics in microstructures of pe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 9 cited

Imaging ferroelectric domains with soft X-ray ptychography at the oxygen K-edge

Tim A. Butcher, Nicholas W. Phillips, Chia-Chun Wei +7

The ferroelectric domain structure of a freestanding BiFeO film was visualized by ptychographic dichroic imaging with linearly polarized X-rays at the O K-edge around 530 eV. T…