Date Available
12-13-2019
Year of Publication
2018
Degree Name
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE)
Document Type
Master's Thesis
College
Engineering
Department/School/Program
Electrical and Computer Engineering
First Advisor
Dr. J. Todd Hastings
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 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
Recommended Citation
Montgomery, Patrick D., "MAGNETO-OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THIN PERMALLOY FILMS: A STUDY OF THE MAGNETO-OPTICAL GENERATION OF LIGHT CARRYING ANGULAR MOMENTUM" (2018). Theses and Dissertations--Electrical and Computer Engineering. 126.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ece_etds/126
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