Single-crystal epitaxial europium iron garnet films with strain-induced perpendicular magnetic anisotropy: structural, strain, magnetic, and spin transport properties

M. X. Guo, C. K. Cheng, Y. C. Liu +12

Single-crystal europium iron garnet (EuIG) thin films epitaxially strain-grown on gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG)(100) substrates using off-axis sputtering have strain-induced perp…