Giant Faraday rotation in BixCe3-xFe 5O12 epitaxial garnet films

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 9624-9639

  Sekhar, M Chandra ^a   Singh, Mahi R ^a   Basu, Shantanu ^a   Pinnepalli, Sai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; MAGNETIZATION; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; ROTATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

DENSITY MATRIX METHOD; GARNET FILMS; PROCESSING PARAMETERS; THEORETICAL MODELING;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84861132475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.009624     Document Type: Article

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