Element-specific spin and orbital momentum dynamics of Fe/Gd multilayers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Bartelt, A F ^a   Comin, A ^a   Feng, J ^a   Nasiatka, J R ^a   Eimuller T ^b   Ludescher, B ^c   Schutz G ^c   Padmore, H A ^a   Young, A T ^a   Scholl, A ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLAYER EXCHANGE; MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ORBITAL MAGNETISM; X-RAY STREAK CAMERA;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; CAMERAS; DEMAGNETIZATION; DICHROISM; GADOLINIUM; IRON;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 34247387181     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2724911     Document Type: Article

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