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Focused ion-beam milling with a sub-10 nm diameter beam of gallium ions has
been used to fabricate held-ion specimens from a multilayer film nanostruc
ture containing 100 repetitions of a (Cu-2 (nm)/Co-2 (nm)) bilayer deposite
d directly onto a planar substrate. Successful field-ion specimen preparati
on has allowed the observation of these layers on the atomic scale by both
held-ion imaging and atom probe compositional analysis.