P. Siroký, J. Pistora, S. C. Sahoo, E. Lišková-Jakubisová, Š. Višňovský, S. Prasad, D. Hrabovský, M. Bohra
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Laser ablated zinc ferrite (ZnFe2O4) films deposited at O2 pressure of 0.16 mbar onto fused quartz substrates are nanocrystalline and display net magnetic moment dependent on the substrate temperature (Ts) during deposition. At Ts = 350 °C, the room 4πMs reached the maximum of 3 kG. The films were studied by spectral ellipsometry and magnetooptical (MO) Kerr effect spectroscopy at photon energies between 1 and 5 eV at room temperature in the longitudinal magnetic flux density 1.14 T. The optical and MO spectra show structural details typical for inverted spinels. Our ZnFe2O4 samples display amplitudes somewhat reduced with respect to those in other ferrimagnetic oxides with the exchange coupled Fe3+ pairs, i.e., in Li0.5Fe2.5O4 and MgFe2O4 spinel ferrite and magnetoplumbite, PbFe12O19. The lower amplitudes are probably due to the interplay of nanocrystalline nature and lower degree of spinel inversion in the ZnFe2O4 laser ablated films.