%0 Conference Paper
%K Optical properties
%K Anisotropy
%K Crystal growth
%K Iron compounds
%K Magnetic properties
%K Grain boundaries
%K Magnetic thin films
%K Ferrimagnetic materials
%K Crystal microstructure
%K Diffusion in solids
%K Metallic superlattices
%K Garnets
%K Magnetooptical devices
%K Iron garnet
%K Pulsed laser deposition
%K Rutherford backscattering
%A B.M Simion
%A Ramamoorthy Ramesh
%A E Marinero
%A R.L Pfeffer
%A G Thomas
%A Garratt-Reed G.W
%B Proceedings - Annual Meeting, Microscopy Society of America
%D 1994
%G eng
%P 898-899
%T Microstructural and magneto-optical characterization of ferrimagnetic multilayered thin-film rare-earth iron garnet heterostructures
%X Superlattice heterostructures consisting of alternating single crystalline ferrimagnetic yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) and bismuth-iron-garnet (BIG) thin film layers, alternating YIG and europium-substituted BIG (EBIG), were deposited on single crystalline (111) paramagnetic gadolinium-gallium-garnet (GGG) substrates. The perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of the YIG/EBIG heterostructures makes this type of materials an extremely viable choice for magneto-optical recording. The novel properties of these layered structures can be linked to several causes such as inter-layer stresses present in the structures, diffusion of the rare-earth species at the layer interfaces, uniformity of layer stoichiometry, layer thickness ratios and layer composition.