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January 22, 2007
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Elke Arenholz
Staff Scientist - BL 4.0.2
and BL
6.3.1
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EArenholz@lbl.gov
6-2228
510-486-4834 tel
510-495-2067 fax
Advanced Light Source Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
One Cyclotron Road, MS 6R2100
Berkeley, CA 94720-8226
USA
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Research Interests
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• Study of magnetic systems such
as thin films, exchange biased systems, novel magnetic
materials using soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) as well
as soft x-ray magnetic
circular dichroism (XMCD) and linear dichroism (XMLD)
• Improving the understanding of
basic effects in soft x-ray magnetic dichroism
• Development of novel instrumentation
for soft x-ray magnetic spectroscopy experiments
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For details, please
go here.
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Awards and Honors
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Klaus Halbach Award for
Innovative Instrumentation at the ALS 2005
“for the design and implementation of a versatile and
highly popular vector magnetometer
for soft x-ray studies”
(Given
annually by the Advanced Light Source Users’ Executive
Committee to a user or staff member
at the Advanced Light Source for the development of new and
outstanding synchrotron radiation
instrumentation)
Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory Outstanding Performance Award 2003
(Given
for outstanding achievement in support of the missions and goals
of the Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory)
Tim Renner User Services Award for Outstanding Support to
the ALS User Community 2001
“for untiring efforts in supporting users at the elliptically
polarizing undulator beamline”
(Given
annually by the Advanced Light Source Users’ Executive
Committee to a staff member at
the Advanced Light Source for outstanding support of users)
Miller
Research Fellowship Award 1997-1999
(Two-year
postdoctoral research fellowship given annually to 8-10 science
graduates by the Miller
Institute for Basics Research in Science, University of
California, Berkeley, to conduct research at
UC Berkeley)
Ernst Eckhart Koch Award 1996
(Given
annually for the most outstanding doctoral thesis in the field of
research with synchrotron
radiation performed either at the
Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft
für
Synchrotronstrahlung m. b. H. (BESSY),
Berlin, Germany, or at Hamburger
Synchrotronstrahlungslabor (HASYLAB),
Hamburg, Germany)
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ALS Science Highlights
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Magnetism Workshops at ALS Users’
Meetings
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Advanced
Magnetic Spectroscopy
Organizers: Elke Arenholz
(ALS) and Hendrik Ohldag
(SSRL)
Advanced Light Source Users’ Meeting 2006, October 10th – 11th, 2006
Magnetic
Nanostructures, Interfaces, and New Materials: Theory, Experiment,
and Applications
Organizers: Y.U. Idzerda (MSU),
S.D. Kevan (UO), and E. Arenholz (ALS)
Advanced Light Source Users’ Meeting 2004, October 19th – 20th, 2004
Applications
of Variable Polarization in
Soft X-Ray Microscopy and
Spectroscopy
Organizers: E. Arenholz (ALS) and A.T. Young
(ALS)
Advanced Light Source Users’ Meeting 2003, October 7th – 8th, 2003
Scientific
Opportunities in Polarization-Dependent
X-Ray Spectroscopy and Microscopy
Organizers: E. Arenholz (ALS), Y.U. Idzerda (MSU), A.T. Young (ALS), and N.V. Smith
(ALS)
Advanced Light Source Users’ Meeting 2002, October 11th – 12th, 2002
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Selected
Recent Publications
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Y.
Z. Wu, Z. Q. Qiu,
Y. Zhao, A. T. Young,
E. Arenholz,
and B. Sinkovic
Tailoring the spin
direction of antiferromagnetic
NiO
thin films grown on
vicinal Ag(001)
Phys.
Rev. B 74, 212402
(2006). |
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P.R.
Stone, M.A. Scarpulla,
R. Farshchi,
I.D. Sharp, E.E. Haller,
O.D. Dubon,
K.M. Yu, J.W. Beeman,
E.
Arenholz,
J.D. Denlinger,
and H. Ohldag
Mn
L3,2
x-ray absorption and
magnetic circular
dichroism
in ferromagnetic Ga1-xMnxP
Appl.
Phys. Lett.
89, 012504 (2006). |
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Elke
Arenholz,
Gerrit
van der
Laan,
Rajesh V. Chopdekar,
and Yuri Suzuki
Anisotropic
x-ray magnetic linear
dichroism
at the Fe L2,3
edges in Fe3O4
Phys.
Rev. B 74, 094407
(2006). |
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Elke
Arenholz,
Kai Liu, Zhipan
Li, and Ivan K. Schuller
Magnetization
reversal of uncompensated
Fe moments in exchange
biased Ni/FeF2
bilayers
Appl.
Phys. Lett.
88, 072503 (2006). |
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K.W.
Edmonds, G. van der
Laan,
A.A. Freeman, N.R.S.
Farley, T.K. Johal,
R.P. Campion,
C.T. Foxon,
B.L. Gallagher, and
E. Arenholz
Angle-dependent
x-ray magnetic circular
dichroism
from (Ga,Mn)As:
Anisotorpy
and identification
of atomic-like and
hybridized states
Phys.
Rev. Lett.
96, 117207 (2006). |
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H.
Ohldag,
H. Shi, E. Arenholz,
J. Stöhr,
and D. Lederman
Parallel
versus antiparallel
interfacial coupling
in exchange-biased
Co/FeF2
bilayers
Phys.
Rev. Lett.
96, 027203 (2006). |
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A.A.
Freeman, K.W. Edmonds,
G. van der
Laan,
N.R.S. Farley, T.K.
Johal,
E. Arenholz,
R.P. Campion,
C.T. Foxon,
and B.L. Gallagher
Giant
anisotropy in x-ray
magnetic linear dichroism
in (Ga,Mn)As
Phys.
Rev. B 73, 233303
(2006). |
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Elke
Arenholz,
and Kai Liu
Angular
dependence of the
magnetization reversal
in exchange biased
Fe/MnF2
Appl.
Phys. Lett.
87, 132501 (2005). |
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Elke
Arenholz
and Soren
O. Prestemon
Design
and performance of
an eight pole resistive
magnet for soft x-ray
magnetic dichroism
measurements
Rev.
Sci.
Instrum.
76, 083908 (2005). |
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A.
Scholl, M. Liberati,
E. Arenholz,
H. Ohldag,
and J. Stöhr
Creation
of an antiferromagnetic
exchange spring
Phys.
Rev. Lett.
92, 247201 (2004). |
K.W. Edmonds, N.R.S. Farley, R.P. Campion, C.T. Foxon, B.L. Gallagher, T.K. Johal, G. van der
Laan, M. MacKenzie, J.N. Chapman, and E. Arenholz
Surface effects in Mn L3,2 x-ray absorption spectra from (Ga,Mn)As
Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 4065 (2004). |
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M.
Taguchi, G. van der
Laan,
E. Arenholz,
S.S. Dhesi,
and E. Dudzik
Magnetic
circular dichroism
and spin polarization
in 3d to 4f resonant
photoemission from
Tb
metal in the perpendicular
geometry
Phys.
Rev. B 68, 104408
(2003). |
H. Ohldag, A. Scholl, F. Nolting, E. Arenholz, S. Maat S, A.T. Young, M. Carey, and J. Stöhr
Correlation between exchange bias and pinned interfacial spins
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 017203 (2003). |
A.T. Young, E. Arenholz, S. Marks, R. Schlueter, C. Steier, H. Padmore, A. Hitchcock, and
D.G. Castner
Variable linear polarization from an x-ray undulator
J. Synchrotron Rad. 9, 270 (2002) |
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