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Investigation of Surface Magnetism by Detection of Polarized Light Emitted After Low Energy He+ Scattering off a Fe(110) Surface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

M. Schleberger
Affiliation:
Universität Osnabrück, Fachbereich Physik, W-4500 Osnabrück, Germany
A. NÄrmann
Affiliation:
Universität Osnabrück, Fachbereich Physik, W-4500 Osnabrück, Germany
W. Heiland
Affiliation:
Universität Osnabrück, Fachbereich Physik, W-4500 Osnabrück, Germany
C. Huber
Affiliation:
Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Atom und Festkörperphysik, W-1000 Berlin, Germany
J. Kirschner
Affiliation:
Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Atom und Festkörperphysik, W-1000 Berlin, Germany
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Abstract

We present data from low-energy He+ ion scattering off a magnetized Fe(110) surface where we monitored the circular polarization of the light emitted from particles neutralized into excited states. We investigated the dependence on incident energy, incident angle and magnetization for a singlet and a triplet transition. As expected, there is no dependence on magnetization for the singlet state, but for the triplet transition we observed a difference in the circular polarization of as high as 32% when changing the direction of the magnetization.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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