Engineered materials for all-optical helicity-dependent magnetic switching

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 286-292

  Mangin, S ^a,b   Gottwald, M ^a   Lambert, C H ^a,b   Steil, D ^c   Uhlir V ^a   Pang, L ^d   Hehn, M ^b   Alebrand, S ^c   Cinchetti, M ^c   Malinowski, G ^b,e   Fainman, Y ^d   Aeschlimann, M ^c   Fullerton, E E ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIZATION;

APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS; ENGINEERED MATERIALS; ENGINEERING MATERIALS; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURES; MAGNETIC SWITCHING; OPTICAL MANIPULATION; STORAGE TECHNOLOGY;

MAGNETIC STORAGE;

EID: 84894423310     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3864     Document Type: Article

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