O. Kamada et al., MAGNETOOPTICAL PROPERTIES OF (BIGDY)3FE5O12 FOR OPTICAL MAGNETIC-FIELD SENSORS, Journal of applied physics, 75(10), 1994, pp. 6801-6803
The temperature dependent sensitivity characteristic in the zeroth-ord
er diffraction beam from the multidomain materials of BixGdYY3-(X+Y)Fe
5O12 films grown by a conventional liquid-phase-epitaxial method are s
tudied. By measuring the variation of the sensitivity with temperature
, it was found that films with X = 1.3 and Y = 0.43 show the minimum v
alue of +/- 0.5% between 253 and 353 K. The contribution of the Gd sub
stitution on the improvement of the temperature dependence of the sens
itivity was explained by a simple theoretical calculation.