Detection of picosecond magnetization dynamics of 50 nm magnetic dots down to the single dot regime

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 9559-9565

  Rana, Bivas ^a   Kumar, Dheeraj ^a   Barman, Saswati ^a   Pal, Semanti ^a   Fukuma, Yasuhiro ^b   Otani, Yoshichika ^b,c   Barman, Anjan ^a  

^a S N BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES   (India)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

damping; magnetization precession; magnetostatic interaction; single nanomagnets dynamics; time resolved magneto optical Kerr effect

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; AREAL DENSITIES; EDGE-TO-EDGE; MAGNETIC DOTS; MAGNETIZATION DYNAMICS; MAGNETIZATION PRECESSION; MAGNETOSTATIC INTERACTION; MAGNETOSTATIC INTERACTIONS; MODE SPLITTING; NANODOTS; NANOMAGNETS; PICOSECONDS; PRECESSION FREQUENCY; RESONANT MODE; TIME DOMAIN; TIME-RESOLVED MAGNETO-OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

DAMPING; DYNAMICS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOSTATICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETISM; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAGNETICS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 84555169289     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn202791g     Document Type: Article

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