Inertial displacement of a domain wall excited by ultra-short circularly polarized laser pulses

Domain wall motion driven by ultra-short laser pulses has potential for storage of information in magnetoelectronic devices. Here the authors demonstrate the conversion of a circularly polarized femtosecond laser light into inertial displacement of a domain wall in a ferromagnetic semiconductor.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: T. Janda, P. E. Roy, R. M. Otxoa, Z. Šobáň, A. Ramsay, A. C. Irvine, F. Trojanek, M. Surýnek, R. P. Campion, B. L. Gallagher, P. Němec, T. Jungwirth, J. Wunderlich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15226