Vasilyev, D., Kirschner, J.
Design and performance of a spin-polarized electron energy loss spectrometer with high momentum resolution
Review of Scientific Instruments 87, (8),pp 083902/1-6 (2016)
We describe a new "complete" spin-polarized electron energy loss spectrometer comprising a
spin-polarized primary electron source, an imaging electron analyzer, and a spin analyzer of the
"spin-polarizing mirror" type. Unlike previous instruments, we have a high momentum resolution
of less than 0.04 Å−1, at an energy resolution of 90-130 meV. Unlike all previous studies which
reported rather broad featureless data in both energy and angle dependence, we find richly structured
spectra depending sensitively on small changes of the primary energy, the kinetic energy after
scattering, and of the angle of incidence. The key factor is the momentum resolution.