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The magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE), the differential reflection of oppositely circularly polarized light, has traditionally been associated with relativistic spin-orbit coupling (SOC), which links a particle's spin with its orbital…

When a polarized light beam is incident upon the surface of a magnetic material, the reflected light undergoes a polarization rotation. This magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) has been intensively studied in a variety of ferro- and…

Magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) is a powerful probe of broken time-reversal symmetry ($\mathcal{T}$), typically used to study ferromagnets. While MOKE has been observed in some antiferromagnets (AFMs) with vanishing magnetization, it is…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-08 V. Sunko , S. Ahsanullah , V. Jain , S. Weber , S. Kumaran , J. -Q. Yan , J. Orenstein , D. Ovchinnikov

The polar magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) for low-symmetric ferromagnetic crystals is investigated theoretically based on first-principle calculations of optical conductivities and a transfer matrix approach for the electrodynamics part…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Helmut Rathgen , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Olle Eriksson , Gertrud Zwicknagl

With the development of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials, magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) is widely used to measure ferromagnetism in 2D systems. Although this effect is usually inactive in antiferromagnets (AFM), recent…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-14 Di Zhou , Ning Ding , Haoshen Ye , Shuai Dong , Shan-Shan Wang

We report the magneto optic Kerr effect (MOKE) angle of Au magnetically excited by spin accumulation. We perform time resolved polar MOKE measurements on Au/Co heterostructures. In our experiment, the ultrafast optical excitation of the Co…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-27 Víctor H. Ortiz , Sinisa Coh , Richard B. Wilson

We study the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) of the two-dimensional heterostructure CrI3/In2Se3/CrI3 by using density functional theory calculations and symmetry analysis. The spontaneous polarization in the In2Se3 ferroelectric layer…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-12 Ning Ding , Kunihiro Yananose , Carlo Rizza , Feng-Ren Fan , Shuai Dong , Alessandro Stroppa

The magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) is investigated in hematite, a collinear antiferromagnetic insulator, across a broad wavelength spectrum. By combining the optical measurements with magnetometry results, we unambiguously demonstrate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-24 Haolin Pan , Rui-Chun Xiao , Jiahao Han , Hongxing Zhu , Junxue Li , Qian Niu , Yang Gao , Dazhi Hou

The linear magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) is often used to probe magnetism of ferromagnetic materials, but MOKE cannot be applied to collinear antiferromagnets (AFs) due to the cancellation of sub-lattice magnetization. Magneto-optical…

The magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) is a widely used lab-based technique for the study of thin films and nanostructures, providing magnetic characterization with good spatial and temporal resolutions. Due to the complex coupling of light…

We study the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) in SrRuO$_3$ thin films, uncovering wide regimes of wavelength, temperature, and magnetic field where the Kerr rotation is not simply proportional to the magnetization but instead displays…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-04 F. Michael Bartram , Sopheak Sorn , Zhuolu Li , Kyle Hwangbo , Shengchun Shen , Felix Frontini , Liqun He , Pu Yu , Arun Paramekanti , Luyi Yang

First principles calculations of the magnetic properties and the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) of iron thin films epitaxially grown on the [001] surface of paramagnetic metals: copper, silver, gold, palladium, and platinum are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Debernardi , I. Galanakis , M. Alouani , H. Dreysse

In most studies utilizing the magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE), the detected change of polarized light upon reflection from a magnetized sample is supposed to be proportional to the magnetization $\boldsymbol{M}$. However, MOKE signatures…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-16 Maik Gaerner , Robin Silber , Tobias Peters , Jaroslav Hamrle , Timo Kuschel

Magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) is an efficient approach to probe surface magnetization in thin film samples. Here we present a wide-field MOKE technique that adopts a K$\"o$hler illumination scheme to characterize the current-induced…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-01 Tsung-Yu Tsai , Tian-Yue Chen , Chun-Ting Wu , Hsin-I Chan , Chi-Feng Pai

We have performed a two-color time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) study of a ferromagnetic InMnAs/GaSb heterostructure. We observed ultrafast photo-induced changes in the MOKE signal induced by a large density of spin-polarized…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Wang , G. A. Khodaparast , J. Kono , T. Slupinski , A. Oiwa , H. Munekata

We carried out magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) and magnetization measurements on a single crystal of Ni2.00Mn1.16Ga0.84 in a longitudinal geometry. While there had been reports of polar geometry measurements so far, we show that -…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-11 Fikáček Jan , Kopecký Vít , Kaštil Jiří , Heczko Oleg , Honolka Jan

The magnetooptic Kerr effect (MOKE) is a well known and handy tool to characterize ferro-, ferri- and antiferromagnetic materials. Many of the MOKE techniques employ effects solely linear in magnetization $\bm{M}$. Nevertheless, a…

We have measured the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) in an orthorhombic organic antiferromagnet $\kappa$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$Cu[N(CN)$_2$]Cl, which is a candidate for an altermagnet. From the Maxwell equations, we derived matrix-type general…

Magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) magnetometry is one of the most widely employed techniques for the characterization of ferromagnetic thin-film samples. Some information, such as coercive fields or anisotropy strengths can be obtained…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-03-05 M. Buchmeier , R. Schreiber , D. E. Bürgler , C. M. Schneider

The nonlinear magneto-optical Kerr-effect (NOLIMOKE) is determined for freestanding Fe monolayers with several in-plane structures from first principles. Based on the theory of nonlinear magneto-optics by H\"ubner and Bennemann [Phys. Rev.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 J. P. Dewitz , W. Hübner
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