Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2018 Annual Meeting of the APS Four Corners Section
Volume 63, Number 16
Friday–Saturday, October 12–13, 2018; University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Session G01: Poster Session
5:00 PM,
Friday, October 12, 2018
CSC
Room: 205/206
Chair: David Kieda, University of Utah
Abstract ID: BAPS.2018.4CS.G01.56
Abstract: G01.00056 : BLS Backscattering Experimental Setup Designs and Magnetic Measurements of Thin Films*
Presenter:
Rachel Tenney
(University of Wyoming, Colorado State University)
Authors:
Rachel Tenney
(University of Wyoming, Colorado State University)
Grant Riley
(Colorado State University)
David Marchfield
(Colorado State University)
Katherine Nygren
(Colorado State University)
Mitchell Swyt
(Colorado State University)
Kristen S. Buchanan
(Colorado State University)
Magnetic thin films are important for a variety of applications that include digital storage and information technology. We are particularly interested in multilayered samples with a perpendicular (out-of-plane) anisotropy and an interfacial DMI (Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction) that can promote the formation of topologically-protected spin textures called skyrmions. We are using Brillouin light scattering (BLS) to measure the DMI and vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM) to measure the coercivity, saturation magnetization, and saturation field of these thin films. During the summer 2018 CSU Chemistry REU program, I designed and machined a sample holder for a new BLS experiment setup and used VSM to collect magnetic hysteresis loops for a series of magnetic thin films. The magnet and the sample holder I machined will soon be incorporated into the new BLS setup. The magnetic hysteresis measurements from the thin films provide important information on the film material properties, and they also give us advanced knowledge of the applied field strengths that are needed for the BLS measurements.
*NSF Funding Numbers: 1461040, 1709525, and 1741666
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2018.4CS.G01.56
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