Scheme of the process (IMAGE)

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Scheme of the process

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When a circularly polarized light pulse (red) hits a micrometre-sized graphene disc (grey), a magnetic field is created for a fraction of an instant (black lines).

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Lucchesi, Uta (HZDR)

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