Electromagnetic and magnetic properties of magnetophotonic crystal based on opal matrix with Co and CoO nanoparticles

• Magnetic properties of magnetophotonic crystals based on opal matrices were studied.
• The particles of cobalt oxide are embedded into the inter-sphere voids of matrices.
• Electromagnetic measurements in millimeter waveband are fulfilled.
• Transmission and reflection coefficients were obtained experimentally.
• The spectra of magnetic resonance and antiresonance are studied.

Magnetic properties of magnetophotonic crystals based on opal matrices have been studied as well as their electromagnetic properties in millimeter waveband. The particles of cobalt oxide are embedded into the inter-sphere voids of the matrix. After annealing in hydrogen the cobalt oxide particles transform to metallic cobalt. It has been shown that if antiferromagnetic cobalt oxide remains besides ferromagnetic cobalt, the low-temperature magnetic hysteresis loop is shifted along the field axis. Magnetic field influences essentially on the microwave transmission and reflection coefficients only after annealing in hydrogen that is if the ferromagnetic phase presents in the sample. The spectra of magnetic resonance and antiresonance are studied.

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