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Optical And Magneto-Optical Properties Of Mnpt3 Films (Abstract), Kurt W. Wierman, J. N. Hilfiker, Renat F. Sabiryanov, Sitaram Jaswal, Roger D. Kirby, John A. Woollam

Roger Kirby Publications

Optically thick films of MnPt₃ were prepared by magnetron sputtering onto quartz substrates. Postdeposition annealing at 850 °C resulted in highly textured (111) films with the L1₂ (Cu₃Au) structure. MnPt₃ films are ferromagnetic with a Curie temperature of 380 °C, and they show large magneto-optical effects in the visible. These films also show a high degree of long-range order. The diagonal components of the dielectric tensor were determined using variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry measurements over the spectral range 1.2–2.4 eV. Magneto-optic Kerr rotation and ellipticity measurements were made at near normal incidence over the …