Ultrafast generation of ferromagnetic order via a laser-induced phase transformation in FeRh thin films

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Ju, Ganping ^a   Hohlfeld, Julius ^a   Bergman, Bastiaan ^a,b   Van Deveerdonk, René J M ^a   Mryasov, Oleg N ^a   Kim, Jai Young ^a   Wu, Xiaowei ^a   Weller, Dieter ^a   Koopmans, Bert ^b  

^a SEAGATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CRYSTAL LATTICES; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; IRON ALLOYS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

LATTICE EXPANSION; MOMENTS; SPIN FLUCTUATIONS; THRESHOLD FLUENCE;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 19744377062     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.197403     Document Type: Article

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