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most citedPicosecond Switching of Optomagnetic Tunnel Junctions

61 citations · 113 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 6 cited

Ultrafast single-pulse all-optical switching in synthetic ferrimagnetic Tb/Co/Gd multilayers

Julian Hintermayr, Pingzhi Li, Roy Rosenkamp +6

In this work, we investigate single-shot all-optical switching (AOS) in Tb/Co/Gd/Co/Tb multilayers in an attempt to establish AOS in synthetic ferrimagnets with high perpendicular…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 4 cited

Aging and passivation of magnetic properties in Co/Gd bilayers

T. J. Kools, Y. L. W. van Hees, K. Poissonnier +5

Synthetic ferrimagnets based on Co and Gd bear promise for directly bridging the gap between volatile information in the photonic domain and non-volatile information in the magneti…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 5 cited

Exploring terahertz-scale exchange resonances in synthetic ferrimagnets with ultrashort optically induced spin currents

Julian Hintermayr, Youri L. W. van Hees, Bert Koopmans

Using spin currents generated by fs laser pulses, we demonstrate excitation of GHz ferromagnetic resonance and THz ferrimagnetic exchange resonances in Co/Gd/Co/Gd multilayers by t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Probing Laser-Induced Spin-Current Generation in Synthetic Ferrimagnets Using Spin Waves

Tom Lichtenberg, Youri L. W. van Hees, Maarten Beens +4

Several rare-earth transition-metal ferrimagnetic systems exhibit all-optical magnetization switching upon excitation with a femtosecond laser pulse. Although this phenomenon is ve…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 5 cited

Towards high all-optical data writing rates in synthetic ferrimagnets

Youri L. W. van Hees, Bert Koopmans, Reinoud Lavrijsen

Although all-optical magnetization switching with fs laser pulses has garnered much technological interest, the ultimate data rates achievable have scarcely been investigated. Rece…

physics.app-ph2021★ 12 cited

Ultra-low energy threshold engineering for all-optical switching of magnetization in dielectric-coated Co/Gd based synthetic-ferrimagnet

Pingzhi Li, Mark J. G. Peeters, Youri L. W. van Hees +2

A femtosecond laser pulse is able to switch the magnetic state of a 3d-4f ferrimagnetic material on a pico-second time scale. Devices based on this all-optical switching (AOS) mech…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 61 cited

Picosecond Switching of Optomagnetic Tunnel Junctions

Luding Wang, Houyi Cheng, Pingzhi Li +7

Perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions are one of the building blocks for spintronic memories, which allow fast nonvolatile data access, offering substantial potentials to revolut…

physics.app-ph2020★ 20 cited

Enhanced all-optical switching and domain wall velocity in annealed synthetic-ferrimagnetic multilayers

Luding Wang, Youri L. W. van Hees, Reinoud Lavrijsen +2

All optical switching (AOS) of the magnetization in synthetic ferrimagnetic Pt/Co/Gd stacks has received considerable interest due to its high potential towards integration with sp…