American Institute of Physics, Journal of Applied Physics, 7(105), p. 07C124
DOI: 10.1063/1.3074099
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Material selective sensitivity of a magneto-optical polar Kerr effect to magnetic contributions from different inclusions in self-organized magnetic nanostructures is presented. The method is supported by modeling of the magneto-optic response based on the effective medium approximation and by hysteresis loop measurement of the multiferroic BiFeO3–CoFe2O4 self-assembled nanostructure. Magneto-optic selective sensitivity is demonstrated and explained as an effect of different complex diagonal and off-diagonal permittivity tensor elements of two materials.