Damping modulated terahertz emission of ferromagnetic films excited by ultrafast laser pulses

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Shen, Jian ^a,b   Fan, Xin ^b   Chen, Zhiyuan ^b   Decamp, Matthew F ^b   Zhang, Huaiwu ^a   Xiao, John Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING CONSTANTS; FERROMAGNETIC FILMS; FERROMAGNETIC THIN FILMS; GILBERT DAMPING CONSTANT; MAGNETIZATION PRECESSION; NONMAGNETIC LAYERS; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ EMISSIONS; THZ EMISSION; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRAFAST DEMAGNETIZATION;

CRITICAL CURRENTS; DAMPING; DEMAGNETIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; MAGNETIZATION; PHOTOEXCITATION;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 84865425850     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4737400     Document Type: Article

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