Publication detail

Engineered materials for all-optical helicity-dependent magnetic switching

MANGIN, S. GOTTWALD, M. LAMBERT, C. STEIL, D. UHLÍŘ, V. PANG, L. HEHN, M. ALEBRAND, S. CINCHETTI, M. MALINOWSKI, G. FAINMAN, Y. AESCHLIMANN, M. FULLERTON, E.

Original Title

Engineered materials for all-optical helicity-dependent magnetic switching

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

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.

Keywords

Transition-metal alloys; Magnetooptical properties reversal; Anisotropy; Multilayers; Fe; Co

Authors

MANGIN, S.; GOTTWALD, M.; LAMBERT, C.; STEIL, D.; UHLÍŘ, V.; PANG, L.; HEHN, M.; ALEBRAND, S.; CINCHETTI, M.; MALINOWSKI, G.; FAINMAN, Y.; AESCHLIMANN, M.; FULLERTON, E.

RIV year

2014

Released

16. 2. 2014

ISBN

1476-1122

Periodical

NATURE MATERIALS

Year of study

13

Number

3

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages from

287

Pages to

293

Pages count

7

BibTex

@article{BUT133738,
  author="Stéphane {Mangin} and Matthias {Gottwald} and Charles-Henri {Lambert} and Daniel {Steil} and Vojtěch {Uhlíř} and Lin {Pang} and Michel {Hehn} and Sabine {Alebrand} and Mirko {Cinchetti} and Gregory {Malinowski} and Yeshaiahu {Fainman} and Martin {Aeschlimann} and E.E. {Fullerton}",
  title="Engineered materials for all-optical helicity-dependent magnetic switching",
  journal="NATURE MATERIALS",
  year="2014",
  volume="13",
  number="3",
  pages="287--293",
  doi="10.1038/NMAT3864",
  issn="1476-1122"
}