Patent 7755046 was granted and assigned to Hitachi on July, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Chirality distribution in the molecular structure of protein or the like and magnetic domain structure are analyzed with high resolution less than 10 nm. A transmission electron microscope equipped with a spin-polarized electron source is used for holography observation. The phase of transmission spin-polarized electrons changes due to the existence of chirality structure or magnetization in a sample, which is observed as an interference pattern phase shift in holography measurement.