Description

"This document is an account on a study of the behaviour of magnetic domains in Yttrium Iron Garnet
(YIG). The sample of YIG was in the form a thin film, cut perpendicular to the material's easy axis so that
the Faraday effect could be used for observations of the YIG hysterisic behaviour. Other observations
made were in the form of photographic data taken from a microscope focused on the sample of YIG.
These displayed the change in the domain configuration as a H-Field was applied parallel to the easy axis
in varying field strengths. The field was supplied from a coil contained within the casing of the sample
(the YIG sample was mounted on a transparent substrate of gadlin gallium garnet within the casing).
A further study of the YIG magnetic domains was that of bubble domains. These are isolated, non-
extended domains, the study of such domains demonstrated the elasticity of domain walls and the
analogous behaviour with liquid surface tension."

David.R.Gilson