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When light hits a multilayer planar stack, it is reflected, refracted, and absorbed in a way that can be derived from the Fresnel equations. The analysis is treated in many textbooks, and implemented in many software programs, but certain…
X-ray resonant magnetic reflectivity (XRMR) allows for the simultaneous measurement of structural, optical and magnetooptic properties and depth profiles of a variety of thin film samples. However, a same-beamtime same-sample systematic…
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