2024. October 01.
BME researchers observed exceptionally strong non-reciprocal light absorption in LiCoPO4. They exploited this optical contrast to detect antiferromagnetic domains, which are usually hidden for conventional microscopy techniques. The findings were published in the Physical Review B as a Letter, as Editors' Suggestion, and a synopsis also highlights this study in the Physics Magazine.
B. Tóth, V. Kocsis, Y. Tokunaga, Y. Taguchi, Y. Tokura, and S. Bordács
Imaging antiferromagnetic domains in LiCoPO4 via the optical magnetoelectric effect
Physical Review B 110, L100405 (2024).
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.110.L100405
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.110.L100405
Summary in Physics Magazine:
Charles Day
Charles Day
Imaging Antiferromagnetic Domains
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