Evidence of native oxides on the capping and substrate of Permalloy gratings by magneto-optical spectroscopy in the zeroth- and first-diffraction orders

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Antos, Roman ^a   Mistrik, Jan ^a   Yamaguchi, Tomuo ^a   Visnovsky, Stefan ^b   Demokritov, Sergej O ^c   Hillebrands, Burkard ^c  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c France   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OXIDATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATES;

CAPPING; MAGNETIC NANOSTRUCTURES; MAGNETO-OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; NATIVE OXIDES; PERMALLOY GRATINGS;

OXIDES;

EID: 21244451538     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1944904     Document Type: Article

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