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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…

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

The magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) is a powerful probe of magnetism. Its contact-free optical nature makes it potentially well suitable for measurements under pulsed magnetic fields if various difficulties are overcome. In this paper,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-16 Soichiro Yamane , Sota Nakamura , Atsutoshi Ikeda , Kosuke Noda , Akihiko Ikeda , Shingo Yonezawa

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…

Large surface plasmon polariton assisted enhancement of the magneto-optical activity has been observed in the past, through spectral measurements of the polar Kerr rotation in Co hexagonal antidot arrays. Here, we report a strong thickness…

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

The Magneto-Optical-Kerr-Effect (MOKE) is a convenient technique to study the magnetization of thin films. However, both polar and longitudinal MOKE responses contribute to the total Kerr response in a typical longitudinal MOKE measurement.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-02 Ryan W. Greening , Elyssa D. DeVisscher , Xin Fan

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

Magnetic imaging techniques are widespread critical tools used in fields such as magnetism, spintronics or even superconductivity. Among them, one of the most versatile methods is the magneto-optical Kerr effect. However, as soon as light…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jean Rodriguez , Holger Grisk , Alberto Anadón , Harjinder Singh , Gregory Malinowski , Michel Hehn , Javier Curiale , Jon Gorchon

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 Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect (MOKE) is a fundamental tool in magnetometry, pivotal for advancing research in optics, magnetism, and spintronics as a direct probe of magnetization. Traditional MOKE measurements primarily detect the…

The effect of picosecond acoustic strain pulses (ps-ASP) on a thin layer of (Ga,Mn)As co-doped with phosphorus was probed using magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE). A transient MOKE signal followed by low amplitude oscillations was…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-09 L. Thevenard , E. Peronne , C. Gourdon , C. Testelin , M. Cubukcu , E. Charron , S. Vincent , A. Lemaitre , B. Perrin

Extraordinary optical transmission is observed due to the excitation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in 2-Dimensional hexagonal anti-dot patterns of pure Ni thin films, grown on sapphire substrates. A strong enhancement of the polar…

Characterizing the optical response of magneto-optic and magnetic materials usually relies on semi-classical models (e.g. Lorentz oscillator model) involving few parameters or models based on a detailed quantum mechanical description of the…

Static and dynamic magnetic properties of a ferrimagnetic [Fe(35A)/Gd(50A)]x12 superlattice were investigated in a wide 4-300 K temperature range using magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) and ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) techniques. The…

Recent advances in nanophotonics have demonstrated that various optical resonances in nanostructures can achieve strong field confinement with substantially suppressed scattering. This study investigates the optical Kerr effect (OKE)…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-10 Andrey V. Panov

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…

Charge to spin (orbital) momentum conversion phenomena enclose great potential for advancing applications in spin/orbitronics. Although current-induced magnetic moment accumulation is crucial both for fundamental understanding and practical…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-25 Emanuele Longo , Josep Fontcuberta , Paolo Vavassori

Two-dimensional magnetic materials exhibit strong magneto-optic effects and high tunability by electrostatic gating, making them very attractive for new magneto-photonic devices. Here, we characterize the magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Freddie Hendriks , Alexander N. Rudenko , Malte Roesner , Marcos H. D. Guimaraes

A high-sensitive DC Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect (MOKE) apparatus is described in this letter. Via detailed analysis on several dominating noise sources, we have proposed solutions that significantly lower the MOKE noise, and a sensitivity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-16 Junying Ma , Feng Gu , Ying Xu , Jiaming Le , Fanlong Zeng , Yizheng Wu , Chuanshan Tian