Advanced magneto-optical Kerr effect measurements of superconductors at low temperatures

Autor: Claudia Stahl, Joachim Gräfe, Stephen Ruoß, Patrick Zahn, Jonas Bayer, Julian Simmendinger, Gisela Schütz, Joachim Albrecht
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: AIP Advances, Vol 7, Iss 10, Pp 105019-105019-7 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2158-3226
DOI: 10.1063/1.4985044
Popis: Magneto-optical Kerr-effect (MOKE) measurements of superconducting films with soft-magnetic coatings are performed at low temperatures using a laser-based MOKE set-up. An elaborate measurement scheme with internal reference allows the quantitative comparison of the temperature dependent Kerr-amplitude with the magnetic field generated by supercurrents. For this purpose, an amorphous CoFeB thin film exhibiting a large Kerr-signal is deposited directly on top of the YBCO superconductor acting as field sensing layer. It is shown that the resulting magnetic hysteresis loops of the soft-magnetic film can be used to reconstruct the electric properties of the superconductor.
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