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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…

Investigation of magnetic materials using the first-order magneto-optical Kerr effects (MOKE) is well established and is frequently used in the literature. On the other hand, the utilization of the second-order (or quadratic)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 N. Tesarova , J. Subrt , P. Maly , P. Nemec , C. T. Ellis , A. Mukherjee , J. Cerne

Magneto-optical Kerr effect, normally found in magnetic materials with nonzero magnetization such as ferromagnets and ferrimagnets, has been known for more than a century. Here, using first-principles density functional theory, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-04 Wanxiang Feng , Guang-Yu Guo , Jian Zhou , Yugui Yao , Qian Niu

Spin waves - the elementary excitations of magnetic materials - are prime candidate signal carriers for low dissipation information processing. Being able to image coherent spin-wave transport is crucial for developing interference-based…

We propose a scanning magnetic microscope which has a photoluminescence nanoprobe implanted in the tip of an AFM or STM, or NSOM, and exhibits optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR). The proposed spin microscope has nanoscale lateral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Boris M. Chernobrod , Gennady P. Berman

Spin-coating technique is very fast, cheap, reproducible, simple and needs less material to fabricate films of particulate systems/colloids. Their thickness and uniformity may be controlled by means of external fields. We apply magnetic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-27 Raheema Aslam , Wenceslao González-Viñas

Using symmetry arguments and a tight-binding model, we show that for layered collinear anti- ferromagnets, magneto-optic effects can be generated and manipulated by controlling crystal symmetries through a gate voltage. This provides a…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-28 Nikhil Sivadas , Satoshi Okamoto , Di Xiao

It has been shown that a slab of a negative index material can behave as a superlens enhancing the imaging resolution beyond the wavelength limit. We show here that if such a slab possesses in addition some magneto-optical activity, it…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-26 E. Moncada-Villa , A. Garcia-Martin , J. C. Cuevas

Magnetic imaging with ultra-high spatial resolution is crucial to exploring the magnetic textures of emerging quantum materials. We propose a novel magnetic imaging protocol that achieves Angstrom-scale resolution by combining spin defects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Ning Wang , Jianming Cai , Chao Lei

Confocal and multiphoton microscopy are effective techniques to obtain high-contrast images of 2-D sections within bulk tissue. However, scattering limits their application to depths only up to ~1 millimeter. Multimode fibers make excellent…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-23 Sakshi Singh , Simon Labouesse , Rafael Piestun

Chiral molecules have the potential for creating new magnetic devices by locally manipulating the magnetic properties of metallic surfaces. When chiral polypeptides chemisorb onto ferromagnets they can induce magnetization locally by spin…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-30 Yael Kapon , Fabian Kammerbauer , Shira Yochelis , Mathias Klaui , Yossi Paltiel

Coherent spin resonance techniques, such as nuclear and electron spin resonance spectroscopy, have revolutionized non-invasive imaging by providing spectrally resolved information about spin dynamics. Motivated by the recent emergence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Santiago Beltrán-Romero , Stefan Löffler , Dennis Rätzel , Philipp Haslinger

Combining optical tweezers with fluorescence microscopy is a powerful tool for single-cell analysis, playing a pivotal role in disease diagnosis, cell sorting, and the investigation of cellular dynamics. However, fluorescence detection…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-07 Jun Yin , Sanyou Chen , Yihao Yan , Mengqi Wang , Ya Wang , Yiheng Lin , Qi Zhang , Fazhan Shi

Topologically nontrivial magnetic textures such as skyrmions offer promising opportunities for spintronic applications. In recent years, it has been shown that the magnetic properties of layered materials can be affected by depositing…

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

We calculate the influence of diffusive and ballistic transport on ultrafast magnetization in thick metallic films. When only diffusive transport is present, gradients of magnetization in the material remain up to picosecond timescales. In…

Measurements of spin-orbit torques in a ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic multilayer are typically based on an assumption that the entire ferromagnetic layer uniformly responds to the spin-orbit torque. This assumption breaks down when the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Ryan W. Greening , Xin Fan

We describe a new means for electrically creating spin polarization in semiconductors. In contrast to spin injection of electrons by tunneling through a reverse-biased Schottky barrier, we observe spin accumulation at the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Stephens , J. Berezovsky , J. P. McGuire , L. J. Sham , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

We have studied the magneto-optical Kerr effect and optical reflectance of perpendicular magnetized Co/Pt films on self-assembly two-dimensional polystyrene spheres. It is shown that the magneto-optical and the reflectance spectra are…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-03-04 Z. Liu , L. Shi , Z. Shi , X. H. Liu , J. Zi , S. M. Zhou , S. J. Wei , J. Li

Enhancement and tailoring of the transverse magneto-optical Kerr effect (TMOKE) in hybrid metasurfaces comprising rectangular silicon nanowires coupled with a nickel substrate are demonstrated. The excitation of Mie modes of different…