The CHIRALTEM Project: XMCD without a Synchrotron

X-rays Magnetic Circular Dichroism (XMCD) is the magnetically induced dependency of the X-Rays absorption spectra (XANES) upon the helicity of the exciting circularly polarized photon. Whereas the similarities between XANES and energy loss near edge structures (ELNES) in the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) succeeded to export Linear Dichroism to the TEM, a similar task for Circular Dichroism was considered to be impossible with present technology. A recent discovery [1] shows that this is not true.