Published in:
Journal of Applied Physics, 87 (2000) 9, Seite 5630-5632
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1063/1.372472
ISSN:
1089-7550;
0021-8979
Origination:
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Description:
We report measurements of the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) on an optical grating of Ni-stripes on Si(111) and a grating of Al-stripes on a Ni thin film. The analysis of the MOKE signal at different orders of diffraction n reveals a change of the Kerr signal amplitude, which is periodic in n having the same periodicity as the total intensity of the diffracted light. For the grating of Ni-stripes we observe a definite change of the shape of the magnetic hysteresis loops also varying systematically with the order of diffraction n.