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Date Available

12-13-2019

Year of Publication

2018

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE)

College

Engineering

Department/School/Program

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Faculty

Dr. J. Todd Hastings

Faculty

Dr. Aaron Cramer

Abstract

Magneto-optical materials such as permalloy can be used to create artificial spin- ice (ASI) lattices with antiferromagnetic ordering. Magneto-optical materials used to create diffraction lattices are known to exhibit magnetic scattering at the half- order Bragg peak while in the ground state. The significant drawbacks of studying the magneto-optical generation of OAM using x-rays are cost, time, and access to proper equipment. In this work, it is shown that the possibility of studying OAM and magneto-optical materials in the spectrum of visible light at or around 2 eV is viable. Using spectroscopic ellipsometry it is possible to detect a change in the magnetization of thin permalloy films with thicknesses between 5 and 20 nm. Patterns consistent with OAM were found at 1.95 eV using a square lattice with a 4πœ‹ radial phase shift in the antiferromagnetic ground state. Evidence of magnetic scattering at the half-order Bragg peak using 1.95 eV was also found.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2018.461

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