Photo-induced bias of the hysteresis loop in ferrites at room temperature with long-time memory
New photo-magnetic effects with an indefinitely long-time memory are found at room temperature in the epitaxial Mg 0.75Mn 0.21Co 0.04Fe 2O 4 ferrite film. Illumination of the ferrimagnetic material with low-intensity (0.4 W cm −2) circularly polarized light with or without a static magnetic field in...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of magnetism and magnetic materials 2009-09, Vol.321 (17), p.2550-2555 |
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Zusammenfassung: | New photo-magnetic effects with an indefinitely long-time memory are found at room temperature in the epitaxial Mg
0.75Mn
0.21Co
0.04Fe
2O
4 ferrite film. Illumination of the ferrimagnetic material with low-intensity (0.4
W
cm
−2) circularly polarized light with or without a static magnetic field in the Faraday effect geometry results in a number of nonlinear effects in both space and time. In a uniform crystal with cubic symmetry, the long-lived photo-induced magnetization (PIM) with a unidirectional anisotropy appears along the direction of the incoming light. The effects depend on a combination of magnetic field
H and the helicity of circularly polarized light
σ. Two combinations
H
+,
σ
+ and
H
−,
σ
− lead to a photo-induced unidirectional anisotropy with a shift of the hysteresis loop along an applied field and a change in loop parameters. The loop contracts by a factor of two, the shift of the mid-point
H
sh increases by factor of five surpassing the coercivity
H
c, the coercivity
H
c1 and remanence
M
r1 (for decreasing applied field) reverse the sign, increasing by 9
Oe and reducing by a factor of 4.5, respectively. The effects cannot be erased by a conventional demagnetization (using an AC current that is reduced to zero amplitude), but can be removed using an illumination with two other combinations (
H
+,
σ
− and
H
−,
σ
+) as well as by heating at temperatures higher than the Curie temperature. This long-lived room-temperature memory effect may arise from the formation of complex photo-induced defects including photo-induced magnetic polarons. The possible mechanisms responsible for the appearance of a room-temperature photo-induced unidirectional anisotropy with a long-lived memory are discussed. These new photo-magnetic effects may find an application in magneto-optical memory devices. |
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ISSN: | 0304-8853 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jmmm.2009.03.038 |