Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
Feb 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008rsci...79b5109s&link_type=abstract
Review of Scientific Instruments, Volume 79, Issue 2, pp. 025109-025109-7 (2008).
Computer Science
Performance
Magnetic Properties Of Monolayers And Thin Films, Magnetooptical Effects, Magnetization Curves, Hysteresis, Barkhausen And Related Effects, Photoconduction And Photovoltaic Effects
Scientific paper
A simple versatile desktop instrument for the measurement of Faraday rotation in the ultraviolet range has been designed and constructed. A high pressure short arc mercury lamp is used for the light source. By using interference filter for mercury, the desired wavelength of the available lines for mercury (e.g., 365, 405, and 436 nm) is selected. Our instrument measures hysteresis loops in magnetic fields up to 900 kA/m within a few minutes. With a light beam intensity monitor, the detrimental effect from fluctuations in the light source has been virtually eliminated. The instrument can operate at photocurrents from the picoampere regime and above with a Faraday rotation sensitivity of around 1 millideg. By incorporating a higher order Taylor expansion approach, we improve the linearity of the Faraday rotation to transmitted light relationship by two orders of magnitude. The electronics is custom designed analog type, rendering relaxed dynamic requirements for the analog-to-digital converter. The design is fully protected from ambient light which makes operation with the equipment in darkness superfluous; neither does it need any optical table. The data acquisition and operation of the instrument are fully supported by a LABVIEW program. Measurements on a magnetite thin film and on microscope cover glass are given as examples for the performance and sensitivity of the equipment.
Koteswara Rao V.
Ström Valter
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