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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…

The magnetic field is one of the most fundamental control parameters in materials science. A pulsed magnetic-field apparatus can generate high magnetic fields that are inaccessible by conventional DC-field magnets. One important issue is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-27 Atsutoshi Ikeda , Sota Nakamura , Soichiro Yamane , Kosuke Noda , Akihiko Ikeda , Shingo Yonezawa

In most of the cases the magnetooptic Kerr effect (MOKE) techniques rely solely on the effects linear in magnetization ($\bm{M}$). Nevertheless, a higher-order term being proportional to $\bm{M}$$^2$ and called quadratic MOKE (QMOKE) can…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-05 Robin Silber , Michaela Tomíčková , Jari Rodewald , Joachim Wollschläger , Martin Veis , Timo Kuschel , Jaroslav Hamrle

The present paper introduces a quantum weak measurement (WM) scheme for the measurement of the complex magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE). We achieve the simultaneous measurement of the Kerr rotation angle and the ellipticity in a single WM…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-06 Tong Li , Yunhan Wang , Yinghang Jiang , Sijie Zhang , Lan Luo , Zhiyou Zhang

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…

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

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

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 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

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…

We present magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) spectrometer based on a modified Martin-Puplett interferometer, utilizing continuous wave sub-THz low-power radiation in broad frequency range. This spectrometer is capable of measuring the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-03 A. Glezer Moshe , R. Nagarajan , U. Nagel , T. Rõõm , G. Blumberg

The magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) is often assumed to be proportional to the magnetisation of a magnetically ordered metallic sample; in metallic ferrimagnets with chemically distinct sublattices, such as rare-earth transition-metal…

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

Magneto-optical spectroscopy based on the transverse magneto-optical Kerr effect (TMOKE) is a sensitive method for investigation of magnetically-ordered media. However, in magnetic materials the optical transitions are usually characterized…

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

The magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) is often applied as a tool for the magnetic characterization of thin films. Here, the change in polarization upon reflection from the magnetized sample is mainly regarded as being linearly proportional…

Magnetic and spintronic media have offered fundamental scientific subjects and technological applications. Magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) microscopy provides the most accessible platform to study the dynamics of spins, magnetic…

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 transverse magneto-optical Kerr effect (TMOKE) in magnetite-based magneto-plasmonic crystals is studied experimentally and theoretically. We analyze angle-resolved TMOKE spectra from two types of structures where noble metallic stripes…

High-resolution imaging of magnetic nanostructures is essential for understanding fundamental spin phenomena and designing advanced devices. Recent developments in three-dimensional (3D) nanomagnetism have highlighted the growing need for…

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