Cerium substituted YIG single crystalline film prepared with ultra-high-vacuum magnetron sputtering

Author

Okamura, Y. ; Kubota, J. ; Yamamoto, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Osaka Univ., Japan

Volume

31

Issue

6

fYear

1995

fDate

11/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

3289

Lastpage

3291

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the preparation of cerium substituted yttrium iron garnet which is known to be an oxide with a large magneto-optic effect. Using magnetron sputtering we successfully grew an epitaxial film on a nonmagnetic substrate. Here we investigate the conditions of the single crystal film growth by use of the sputtering technique: dependence of the lattice constant and the Faraday coefficient on the oxygen flow rate and the sputtering pressure. The obtained films are different from the films reported previously

Keywords

Faraday effect; X-ray diffraction; cerium compounds; garnets; lattice constants; magnetic epitaxial layers; sputter deposition; yttrium compounds; Ce-YIG single crystalline film; CeY₂Fe₅O₁₂; Faraday coefficient; O₂ flow rate; X-ray diffraction pattern; epitaxial film; garnet; large magneto-optic effect; lattice constant; nonmagnetic substrate; single crystal film growth; specific Faraday rotation; sputtering pressure; ultra-high-vacuum magnetron sputtering; Cerium; Crystallization; Garnet films; Iron; Magnetooptic effects; Optical films; Optical waveguides; Particle beam optics; Sputtering; Substrates;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/20.490363

Filename

490363