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X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism

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XMCD is the difference in the X-ray absorption intensities between the right- and left-hand circular polarizations.

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Amemiya, K. (2018). X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism. In: The Surface Science Society of Japan (eds) Compendium of Surface and Interface Analysis. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6156-1_131

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