Microscopic and spectroscopic studies of light-induced magnetization switching of GdFeCo facilitated by photoemission electron microscopy

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 51, Issue 7 PART 1, 2012, Pages

  Ohkochi, Takuo ^a   Fujiwara, Hidenori ^b   Kotsugi, Masato ^a,f   Tsukamoto, Arata ^c,g   Arai, Kuniaki ^d   Isogami, Shinji ^e,i   Sekiyama, Akira ^b   Yamaguchi, Junichi ^b   Fukushima, Kazuaki ^b   Adam, Roman ^h   Schneider, Claus M ^h   Nakamura, Tetsuya ^a   Kodama, Kenji ^a,j   Masakiyo, Tsunoda ^e   Kinoshita, Toyohiko ^a,f   Suga, Shigemasa ^b,h  

^a JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^g FUKUSHIMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^h NARA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

ⁱ HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^j FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; COBALT ALLOYS; COBALT METALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GADOLINIUM ALLOYS; IRON ALLOYS; IRON METALLOGRAPHY; LASER PULSES; PHOTOEMISSION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TERNARY ALLOYS; X RAYS;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LASERS; MAGNETIZATION SWITCHING; MAGNETIZATION-REVERSAL CYCLE; PHOTOEMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOFT X-RAY PHOTOEMISSION; SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES; TEMPORALLY RESOLVED;

MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL;

EID: 84863789635     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: 13474065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.51.073001     Document Type: Article

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