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Thickness dependent enhancement of the polar magneto-optic Kerr rotation in Co magnetoplasmonic nanostructures
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Materials Physics.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Materials Physics.
(IMM-Instituto de Microelectronica de Madrid)
(Fachbereich Physik and Forschungszentrum OPTIMAS Technische Universität, Kaiserslautern)
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Keywords [en]
Magnetooptics, nanostructures, plasmon, magnetoplasmonics
National Category
Condensed Matter Physics
Research subject
Physics with spec. in Atomic, Molecular and Condensed Matter Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-305162OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-305162DiVA, id: diva2:1034855
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Knut and Alice Wallenberg FoundationSwedish Research CouncilSwedish Foundation for Strategic Research Available from: 2016-10-13 Created: 2016-10-12 Last updated: 2016-10-14
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1. Magnetoplasmonic nanostructures
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Magnetoplasmonic nanostructures
2016 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Surfaces that are nanopatterned, metallic, and magnetic can support surface plasmon resonances, providing an alternative and effective way to reconfigure flat optical components. Utilising a range of near- and far-field characterisation techniques, the optical and magneto-optical properties of lithographically patterned thin magnetic films are investigated.

A magneto-optical diffractometer was designed, assembled, and commissioned to characterise periodic magneto-plasmonic nanostructures. For Ni and Co nanostructured antidot arrays, enhanced values of the magneto-optical Kerr rotation were recorded for energies and angles corresponding to excitations of surface plasmon polaritons. This enhancement was found to be thickness dependent. Modification of the optical properties via applied transverse magnetic fields and the excitation of surface plasmon polaritons, was demonstrated for an antidot array of pure Ni. The excitation was also shown to enhance the generation of second harmonics, as well as further activate nonlinear-optical mechanisms.

In order to fully resolve and explain the source of this remarkable magneto-optical activity, near field probing techniques were used. This allows for mapping the electric near-field with a sub-wavelength resolution, thereby revealing the interplay between the light and the nanostructured lattice. The measurements show that the electric near field intensification, induced by plasmon excitation, increases the polarisation conversion, which correlates to the observed magneto-optical Kerr rotation.

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Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2016. p. 58
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Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, ISSN 1651-6214 ; 1439
Keywords
Magnetism, nanostructures, plasmons, magneto-optics, magnetoplasmonics
National Category
Condensed Matter Physics Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
Research subject
Physics with spec. in Atomic, Molecular and Condensed Matter Physics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-305276 (URN)978-91-554-9724-8 (ISBN)
Public defence
2016-12-02, Polhemsalen, Lägerhyddsvägen 1, Uppsala, 10:00 (English)
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Knut and Alice Wallenberg FoundationSwedish Research Council
Available from: 2016-11-09 Created: 2016-10-14 Last updated: 2016-11-16

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