High-Throughput Mapping of Magnetic Properties via the on-the-fly XMCD spectroscopy in a Combinatorial Fe-Co-Ni Film

TL;DR

This study introduces a rapid high-throughput XMCD spectroscopy method for mapping magnetic properties in Fe-Co-Ni films, significantly speeding up data acquisition while accurately identifying composition regions with enhanced magnetic characteristics.

Contribution

The paper presents an on-the-fly XMCD technique that reduces measurement time tenfold and enables detailed magnetic property mapping across compositional gradients.

Findings

Identified composition regions with enhanced soft magnetic properties.

Achieved tenfold reduction in spectral measurement time.

Validated high-throughput XMCD as effective for materials discovery.

Abstract

High-throughput X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) spectroscopy was conducted on Fe-Co-Ni compositionally graded films to systematically analyze the variation of magnetic properties as a function of composition. On-the-fly XMCD measurement enabled rapid spectral acquisition. Measurement time was reduced approximately tenfold compared to conventional stepwise methods, while maintaining high precision. The obtained XMCD spectra were processed using the Savitzky-Golay denoising technique, and element-specific magnetic properties were extracted using XMCD sum rules. By mapping the orbital and spin magnetic moments across the composition gradient, we identified key regions exhibiting enhanced soft magnetic properties. This study demonstrates the effectiveness of high-throughput synchrotron-based spectroscopy for accelerating materials discovery and optimizing functional magnetic materials.