Highly flexible, advanced wide-field Kerr-microscope for magnetic domain research. Enhanced by image processing and equipped with electromagnets, domains and magnetization processes on all kinds of ferro- and ferrimagnetic materials can be studied at variable magnifications down to the resolution limit of optical microscopy. The microscope is based on the long experience of Dr. Jeffrey McCord and Dr. Rudolf Schäfer.

Brochure Kerr-microscope

Features:

High-end wide-field polarization microscope

Modified optics for optimal and homogeneous Kerr-contrast

Field of view from several millimeters down to micrometers using objective lenses from 5x to 100x (Oil immersion)

Rotatable electromagnet for in-plane fields up to 10 kOe (800 kA/m)

Optimized waveform generator for the generation of magnetic fields for general domain studies (ac, dc field, demagnetization etc.)

Real-time difference imaging technique for high contrast magnetic domain observation

Options: High and Low temperature domain observation in optical cryostat / heating stage (10 K - 900 K), in-situ application of magnetic fields

Simultaneous measurement of local M(H) curves and recording of underlying domain processes