Enhanced longitudinal magnetooptic Kerr effect contrast in nanomagnetic structures

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2740-2742

  Gibson, Ursula J ^a   Holiday, Lindsay F ^a   Allwood, Dan A ^b   Basu, Swaraj ^b   Fry, Paul W ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antireflection films; Dielectric coatings; Magnetic nanostructures; Magnetooptic Kerr effect (MOKE)

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; MAGNETIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; MAGNETOOPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANTIREFLECTION FILMS; DIELECTRIC COATINGS; MAGNETIC NANOSTRUCTURES; MAGNETOOPTIC KERR EFFECT (MOKE);

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 34249095118     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.894003     Document Type: Article

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