LINEAR BIREFRINGENCE IN Bi-SUBSTITUTED IRON GARNET CRYSTALS

Anisotropy of Ruthenium-substituted Yttrium-iron-garnet

Form birefringence in helical liquid crystals

The optical properties of cholesteric and chiral smectic liquid crystals are studied, in the limit of pitch smaller than the wavelength of visible light, by means of a formalism borrowing techniques developed to explain form birefringence effects in particulate media. The behaviour of actual stratified anisotropic substances is shown to be accurately approximated, in this limit, by an effective...

Morphology and magnetic characterisation of aluminium substituted yttrium-iron garnet nanoparticles prepared using sol gel technique.

Aluminum substituted yttrium iron garnet nano particles with compositional variation of Y(3.0-x) A1(x)Fe5O12, where x = 0.0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0 were prepared using sol gel technique. The X-ray diffraction results showed that the best garnet phase appeared when the sintering temperature was 800 degrees C. Nano-crystalline particles with high purity and sizes ranging from 20 to 100 n...

Optical Gyrotropy and Birefringence in Magnetic Crystals

Optical and magnetooptical properties of bismuth and gallium substituted iron garnet films

A series of iron garnet films of composition Lu Bi Fe Ga O grown on (100) oriented GGG substrates have been studied 3yx x 5yy y 12 using variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry and polar Kerr spectroscopy (MOKE). The diagonal and off-diagonal components of the permittivity tensor have been determined in the range 1–5 eV. Our results seem to be in accordance with previously reported measuremen...