Magneto-optical Faraday effect probed in a scanning tunneling microscope

Abstract

Semiconductor tips are used as local photodetectors in a scanning tunneling microscope. We demonstrate that this configuration is sensitive to small light intensity variations, as supported by a simple model. The principle is applied to the detection of Faraday ellipticity of a Pt/Co multilayer sample. The outlook of this new technique in magneto-optical imaging is briefly discussed

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Last time updated on 6/18/2018

This paper was published in NARCIS .

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