Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 28, Issue 24, Pages 9010-9020Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la301239x
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- Spanish Government (CONSOLIDER Nanoselect) [CSD2007-00041, MAT2011-29269-C03-01, MAT2009-08024, MAT2009-06885-E]
- FPI
- CSIC JAE-predoc grants
- Generalitat de Catalunya [2009SGR-376, 2009SGR-203]
- FI grant
- ANPCyT (Argentina) [PICT08-1617]
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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Coupling magnetic materials to plasmonic structures provides a pathway to dramatically increase the magneto-optical response of the resulting composite architecture. Although such optical enhancement has been demonstrated in a variety of systems, some basic aspects are scarcely known. In particular, reflectance/transmission modulations and electromagnetic field intensification, both triggered by plasmon excitations, can contribute to the magneto-optical enhancement. However, a quantitative evaluation of the impact of both factors on the magneto-optical response is lacking. To address this issue, we have measured magneto-optical Kerr spectra on corrugated gold/dielectric interfaces with magnetic (nickel and iron oxide) nanoparticles. We find that the magneto-optical activity is enhanced by up to an order of magnitude for wavelengths that are correlated to the excitation of propagating or localized surface plasmons. Our work sheds light on the fundamental principles for the observed optical response and demonstrates that the outstanding magneto-optical performance is originated by the increase of the polarization conversion efficiency, whereas the contribution of reflectance modulations is negligible.
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