Abstract
Investigations on cylindrical rods of yttrium iron garnet (YIG) have shown that the magnetostrictive effect at microwave frequencies makes them effective microwave acoustic transducers, and that a lower bound of the acoustic Q is of the order of 2×105 at 1 kMc/sec. This paper describes measurements of acoustic Q's of nearly this same magnitude obtained with the nonmagnetic yttrium gallium garnet (YGaG) and yttrium aluminum garnet (YAlG). A table is given of the longitudinal and shear acoustic wave velocities, elastic stiffness constants, and elastic isotropy for yttrium gallium garnet and yttrium aluminum garnet. Similar data for yttrium iron garnet by Clark and Strakna are included for reference.
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