Engineered materials for all-optical helicity-dependent magnetic switching
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26210%2F14%3APU122948" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26210/14:PU122948 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NMAT3864" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NMAT3864</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NMAT3864" target="_blank" >10.1038/NMAT3864</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Engineered materials for all-optical helicity-dependent magnetic switching
Original language description
The possibility of manipulating magnetic systems without applied magnetic fields have attracted growing attention over the past fifteen years. The low-power manipulation of the magnetization, preferably at ultrashort timescales, has become a fundamental challenge with implications for future magnetic information memory and storage technologies. Here we explore the optical manipulation of the magnetization in engineered magnetic materials. We demonstrate that all-optical helicity-dependent switching (AO-HDS) can be observed not only in selected rare earth–transition metal (RE–TM) alloy films but also in a much broader variety of materials, including RE–TM alloys, multilayers and heterostructures. We further show that RE-free Co–Ir-based synthetic ferrimagnetic heterostructures designed to mimic the magnetic properties of RE–TM alloys also exhibit AO-HDS. These results challenge present theories of AO-HDS and provide a pathway to engineering materials for future applications based on all-optical control of magnetic order.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10302 - Condensed matter physics (including formerly solid state physics, supercond.)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
NATURE MATERIALS
ISSN
1476-1122
e-ISSN
1476-4660
Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
287-293
UT code for WoS article
000331945200024
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84894423310