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Composition-tuned magneto-optical Kerr effect in L10-MnxGa films with giant perpendicular anisotropy
We report the large polar magnetooptical Kerr effect in L10-MnxGa epitaxial
films with giant perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in a wide composition range.
The Kerr rotation was enhanced by a factor of up to 10 by decreasing Mn atomic
concentration, which most likely arises from the variation of the effective
spin-orbit coupling strength, compensation effect of magnetic moments at
different Mn atom sites, and overall strain. The Kerr ellipticity and the
magnitude of the complex Kerr angle is found to have more complex
composition-dependence that varies with the photon energy. These L10-MnxGa
films show large Kerr rotation of up to 0.10o, high reflectivity of 35%-55% in
a wide wavelength range of 400~850 nm, and giant magnetic anisotropic field of
up to 210 kOe, making them an interesting material system for emerging
spintronics and terahertz modulator applications
Tracers of chromospheric structure. I. CaII HK emission distribution of 13000 F, G and K stars in SDSS DR7 spectroscopic sample
We present chromospheric activity index measurements for over
13,000 F, G and K disk stars with high signal-to-noise ratio ( 60) spectra
in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) spectroscopic
sample. A parameter S is defined as the difference between
and a `zero' emission line fitted by several of the most inactive stars. The
indices of subgiant stars tend to be much lower than dwarfs, which
provide a way to distinguish dwarfs and giants with relatively low resolution
spectra. Cooler stars are generally more active and display a larger scatter
than hotter stars. Stars associated with the thick disk are in general less
active than those of the thin disk. The fraction of K dwarfs that are active
drops with vertical distance from the Galactic plane. Metallicity affects
measurements differently among F, G and K dwarfs in this sample.
Using the open clusters NGC 2420, M67 and NGC6791 as calibrations, ages of most
field stars in this SDSS sample range from 3-8 Gyr.Comment: 9 pages, 11 figures, AJ, 2013, 145, 14
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