Laboratoire Léon Brillouin
UMR12 CEA-CNRS, Bât. 563 CEA Saclay
91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
+33-169085241 llb-sec@cea.fr
Neutron and X-ray magnetic scattering are the unique methods to extract complementary information of the ordered magnetic structures and their relations with the crystal symmetries at the atomic level.
X-ray magnetic scattering takes advantage of the characteristic properties of x-ray beams at third generation synchrotron radiation facilities: tuneable photon energy, controllable polarisation and polarisation analysis, excellent stability and emittance.
The relevant scattering methods can be summarized in the following:
The aim of this lecture is to introduce the theoretical and the experimental background for these two techniques, comparing the respective strong points, and a short review of the experimental applications.