Magneto-Optical Ellipsometry

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	English
Code	480-6019/02
Abbreviation	MOE
Course title	Magneto-Optical Ellipsometry
Credits	10
Coordinating department	Department of Physics
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Ondřej Životský, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

• Kerr and Faraday magneto-optical effects, microscopic origin

• Linear and quadratic Kerr effects, longitudinal, transversal and polar magnetization components

• Magneto-optical vector magnetometry, intensity differential magneto-optical method

• Magneto-optical Kerr microscopy, observation of magnetic domains

• Spectroscopic magneto-optical ellipsometry

• Modelling of magneto-optical effects in thin films

• Applications – data recording, magneto-optical traps, isolators, sensors

Literature

A. K. Zvezdin and V. A. Kotov, Modern magnetooptics and magnetic materials, Institute of Physics Publishing, 1997
M. Mansuripur, The physical principles of magneto-optical recording, Cambridge University Press, 1995
R. M. A. Azzam, N. M. Bashara, Ellipsometry and polarized light, North- Holland, Amsterdam 1977.
P.Yeh, Optical waves in layered media, Wiley, 1988. 5. S. Sugano and N. Kojima, Magneto-optics, Springer, 1999.

Advised literature

V. V. Eremenko, Magneto-optics and spectroscopy of antiferromagnets, Springer, 1992. 2. K. H. Bennemann, Non-linear optics in metals, Clarendon Pr, 1998.
Papers in scientific literature.

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