Optimising garnet films for magneto-optical sensors

In this Hot Article Griesbauer and colleagues attempt to deposit  magneto-optical materials such as Bi3Fe5O12 onto non-garnet substrates, such readily available cheap SiO2. using an additional buffer layer of annealed Y3Fe5O12.

Mechano- and magneto-optical sensitivity of YIG buffer systems
J. Griesbauer, T. Körner, T. Wehlus, A. Heinrich, B. Stritzker, J. Simon and W. Mader
CrystEngComm, 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C003533E

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