Control of magneto-optical properties of cobalt-layers by adsorption of α-helical polyalanine self-assembled monolayers

Apoorva Sharma*, Patrick Matthes, Ivan Soldatov, Sri Sai Phani Kanth Arekapudi, Benny Böhm, Marina Lindner, Oleksandr Selyshchev, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Ha, Michael Mehring, Christoph Tegenkamp, Stefan E. Schulz, Dietrich R.T. Zahn, Yossi Paltiel, Olav Hellwig, Georgeta Salvan

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Abstract

The adsorption of chiral molecules was recently shown to trigger a change in the magnetisation of mesoscopic magnetic domains in a ferromagnetic underlayer. In this work, we investigated the macroscopic (magneto-)optical response of chemisorbed α-helical polyalanine self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on a gold and gold-capped-cobalt thin film on Au substrates using spectroscopic ellipsometry and magneto-optical Kerr effect spectroscopy and microscopy. The optical and magneto-optical spectra reveal selective chemisorption of the α-helical polyalanine molecules depending on the orientation of the substrate remanent magnetisation during the SAMs process. Moreover, a sign change of the magneto-optical response was observed in some of the magnetic substrates after the chiral SAMs formation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)11822-11829
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Materials Chemistry C
Volume8
Issue number34
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Sep 2020

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