Annealing behaviour and crystal structure of RF-sputtered Bi-substituted dysprosium iron-garnet films having excess co-sputtered Bi-oxide content

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Vasiliev, M ^a   Nur E Alam, M ^a   Alameh, K ^a,b   Premchander, P ^b   Lee, Y T ^b   Kotov, V A ^c   Lee, Y P ^d  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^c INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^d Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING PROCESS; BISMUTH OXIDES; CONVENTIONAL OVENS; COSPUTTERING; CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY; GARNET FILMS; MAGNETO-OPTIC PROPERTIES; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; OPTICAL AND MAGNETO-OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OXIDE COMPOSITES; OXIDE CONTENTS; THERMAL PROCESSING;

ANNEALING; BISMUTH; COMPOSITE FILMS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DYSPROSIUM; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; GALLIUM; GARNETS; IRON OXIDES; MAGNETOS; NANOCOMPOSITES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OXIDE FILMS; SILICATE MINERALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

METAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79751517205     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/44/7/075002     Document Type: Article

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