Complete Permittivity Tensor in Sputtered CuFe₂O₄ Thin Films at Photon Energies between 2 and 5 eV.

This work is devoted to the systematic study of the optical and magneto-optical properties of sputter deposited CuFe₂O₄ thin films in the photon energy region between 2 and 5 eV using spectroscopic ellipsometry and magneto-optical Kerr spectroscopy. The spectral dependence of both the diagonal and off-diagonal elements of the permittivity tensor is determined. A complete picture about the electron transitions in CuFe₂O₄ is suggested in the frame of intervalence charge transfer and intersublattice charge transfer transitions.