Ultrafast magneto-optics in nickel: magnetism or optics?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 844-847

  Koopmans, B ^a   Van Kampen, M ^a   Kohlhepp, J T ^a   De Jonge, W J M ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; DEMAGNETIZATION; LASER PULSES; LOW ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; THERMAL DIFFUSION; THERMAL EFFECTS; THIN FILMS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; MAGNETOOPTICAL RESPONSE; NICKEL THIN FILMS; STATE FILLING EFFECTS; TIME RESOLVED KERR ELLIPTICITY; TIME RESOLVED ROTATION;

NICKEL;

EID: 12944272136     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.844     Document Type: Article

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