Damped precession of the magnetization vector of superparamagnetic nanoparticles excited by femtosecond optical pulses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Andrade, L H F ^a   Laraoui, A ^a   Vomir, M ^a   Muller, D ^b   Stoquert, J P ^b   Estournes C ^c   Beaurepaire, E ^a   Bigot, J Y ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE ET CHIMIE DES MATÉRIAUX DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b Faculté de Médecine   (France)

^c INSTITUT CARNOT CIRIMAT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; DAMPING; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIZATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARAMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

DIELECTRIC INTERFACES; ELECTRON DYNAMICS; OPTICAL PULSES; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33748968114     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.127401     Document Type: Article

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