Magneto-Optical Properties of Thin Films and Nanostructures
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical and Photonic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2022) | Viewed by 440
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Magneto-optics is a physical effect perspective in magnetic data storage, signal transfer and manipulation, material preparation and characterization. The magneto-optical response of ferromagnetic thin films and related systems (multilayers and patterned nanostructures) is well known to detect their micromagnetic, optical, structural and other physical properties. Measuring the magneto-optical Kerr effect in the scanning or wide-field microscopic modes can allow one to observe magnetic domain processes such as switching magnetization states, magnetic domain wall motion or spin vortex dynamics. Furthermore, magneto-optical spectroscopy can serve as a powerful extension to spectroscopic ellipsometry, which is a fast, nondestructive and contactless tool to detect geometric, optical and material properties, such as film thickness, uniformity, surface and interface roughness, native surface oxidation, crystallographic properties or the quality of nanostructures patterned by lithography. Recently, magneto-optical response has been extensively used to study the growth of novel materials, such as Heusler and other compounds, ferrimagnetic and antiferromagnetic materials or magnetic semiconductors. New types of systems have also received considerable attention, such as magnetic skyrmions and their lattices.
In this Special Issue, magneto-optical techniques are used to monitor the preparation of modern magnetic materials deposited as thin films or multilayers on flat substrates. A possibility to study film patterning also takes place, which requires theoretical modelling of the magneto-optical response.
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.
Dr. Roman Antoš
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- magneto-optics
- Kerr effect
- spectroscopy
- ellipsometry
- thin film
- multilayer
- nanostructure
- magnetic material
- magnetization
- domain structure
- spin vortex
- skyrmion
