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Magnetooptical Properties of Ferro- and Ferrimagnetic Spinels

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The study of the magnetooptical properties of magnetics in polarized and natural light is important because of a number of urgent problems in the fields of physics and technology. This paper considers the traditional magnetooptical Kerr and Faraday effects, which are intensively used in practice, alongside the high-magnitude effects of the magnetotransmission and magnetoreflection of nonpolarized light in magnetic semiconductors, such as ferro- and ferrimagnetic spinels, which either possess or not possess high magnetostriction values. Some physical problems requiring further study are formulated.

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This work was performed within the state task of the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations (subject “Spin”, project no. AAAA-A18-118020290104-2), the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (program no. 18-10-2-3), and the Ministry of Education and Science (contract no. 14.Z50.31.0025).

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Sukhorukov, Y.P., Bebenin, N.G., Telegin, A.V. et al. Magnetooptical Properties of Ferro- and Ferrimagnetic Spinels. Phys. Metals Metallogr. 119, 1167–1174 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031918X18120219

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