Highly bismuth-substituted, record-performance magneto-optic garnet materials with low coercivity for applications in integrated optics, photonic crystals, imaging and sensing

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 413-427

  Nur E Alam, Mohammad ^a   Vasiliev, Mikhail ^a   Kotov, Viacheslav A ^b   Alameh, Kamal ^a,c  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH OXIDES; CO-SPUTTERING DEPOSITION; ENGINEERED MATERIALS; IRON GARNET; MAGNETIC AND MAGNETO-OPTICAL PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC FIELD SENSORS; MAGNETO-OPTIC MATERIALS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RADIO FREQUENCIES;

BISMUTH; GARNETS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 84857462812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.000413     Document Type: Article

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