A new ultrahigh vacuum instrument allowing in situ Kerr microscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy is described. The Kerr microscope has a spatial resolution of about 1 μm. First experimental results are reported on the magnetism of a 5 μm wide stripe consisting of six atomic layers of Fe grown in situ by molecular beam epitaxy on a W(110) surface.
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