ABSTRACT
In view of the rapid improvement in signal strength and in spatial resolution, in
particular in CBED geometry, the question arises whether the EMCD signal can
be detected with atomic resolution. Modern electron microscopes achieve sub-
atomic probes, and this could well result in real space maps of chiral transitions on
the atomic scale. Via spin-orbit coupling the atomic spins would be accessible as
described in the previous chapters. Moreover, as demonstrated in Chap. 8 the sum
rules allow us to separate spin and orbital magnetic moments. Essentially it would
be possible to produce atomically resolved maps of spin and orbital moments in
the electron microscope.
