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Magneto-Optical Investigations and Ion Beam-Induced Modification of Heusler Compounds

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Half-metallic Co-based Heusler compounds are attracting attention due to their anticipated use as high-performance materials for spintronics applications, such as spin-source or spin-detector. In order to use these materials in applications, their structural and magnetic properties must be well understood. The important phenomena in those materials are, amongst others, exchange and spin–orbit coupling, the latter one giving rise to effect such as magnetic anisotropy and magneto-optical Kerr effect. In this chapter, we present our investigations of magnetic exchange stiffness, magnetic anisotropy, magnetization reversal, and magneto-optical Kerr effect in Co-based Heusler compound thin films. Furthermore, we have also investigated the modification of the compounds under He+ and Ga+ ion beam irradiation with the aim of improving and tailoring structural properties.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all our collaborators. Without their contributions this work would be impossible. Namely (and their respective groups) Martin Aeschlimann, Yasuo Ando, Stanislav Chadov, Mirko Cincetti, Hans-Joachim Elmers, Jürgen Fassbender, Gerhard H. Fecher, Claudia Felser, Andrii Hloskovskii, Koichiro Inomata, Martin Jourdan, Gerhard Jakob, Jürgen Kübler, Takahide Kubota, Mikihiko Oogane, Kamil Postava, Yuya Sakuraba, Horst Schneider, and Masafumi Yamamoto. We gratefully acknowledge DFG FG 559 (project P9) for financing. ST acknowledges the Alexander von Humboldt foundation for a postdoctoral fellowship.

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  1. VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

    Jaroslav Hamrle

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    Jaroslav Hamrle, Oksana Gaier, Simon Trudel, Georg Wolf & Burkard Hillebrands

  3. Institut Néel, Grenoble, France

    Oksana Gaier

  4. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

    Simon Trudel

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Hamrle, J., Gaier, O., Trudel, S., Wolf, G., Hillebrands, B. (2013). Magneto-Optical Investigations and Ion Beam-Induced Modification of Heusler Compounds. In: Felser, C., Fecher, G. (eds) Spintronics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3832-6_13

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