Concurrent enhancement of Kerr rotation and antiferromagnetic coupling in epitaxial Fe/Cu/Fe structures
- 17 December 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 65 (25), 3169-3172
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.65.3169
Abstract
We report the observation of major enhancements in the magneto-optical polar Kerr rotation in the Fe/Cu/Fe system. These enhancements are as much as a factor of 2 greater than those anticipated due to recently reported plasma-resonance effects. A close connection between these enhancements and antiferromagnetic coupling between the two Fe films is established by the observation of concurrent oscillations in the magnitude of these two effects as a function of Cu thickness.Keywords
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