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Nature Materials volume 6, pages 715–716 (2007)Cite this article

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism in ultrafast mode provides insight into spin relaxation in nickel on a femtosecond timescale, opening up new horizons for research into spin dynamics with the highest resolution.

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Figure 1: Optical pump and X-ray probe realization of a time-resolved study of magnetization dynamics after laser excitation of a nickel thin-film.

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