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Platinum thickness dependence of the inverse spin-Hall voltage from spin pumping in a hybrid YIG/Pt system
We show the first experimental observation of the platinum (Pt) thickness
dependence in a hybrid YIG/Pt system of the inverse spin-Hall effect from spin
pumping, over a large frequency range and for different rf powers. From the
measurement of the dc voltage () at the resonant condition
and the resistance () of the Pt layer, a strong enhancement of the ratio
has been observed, which is not in agreement with previous
studies on the NiFe/Pt system. The origin of this behaviour is still unclear
and cannot be explained by the spin transport model that we have used.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Criteria for accurate determination of the magnon relaxation length from the nonlocal spin Seebeck effect
The nonlocal transport of thermally generated magnons not only unveils the
underlying mechanism of the spin Seebeck effect, but also allows for the
extraction of the magnon relaxation length () in a magnetic
material, the average distance over which thermal magnons can propagate. In
this study, we experimentally explore in yttrium iron garnet (YIG)/platinum
systems much further ranges compared with previous investigations. We observe
that the nonlocal SSE signals at long distances () clearly deviate from a
typical exponential decay. Instead, they can be dominated by the nonlocal
generation of magnon accumulation as a result of the temperature gradient
present away from the heater, and decay geometrically as . We emphasize
the importance of looking only into the exponential regime (i.e., the
intermediate distance regime) to extract . With this principle, we
study as a function of temperature in two YIG films which are 2.7
and 50 m in thickness, respectively. We find to be around 15
m at room temperature and it increases to 40 m at 3.5 K. Finite
element modeling results agree with experimental studies qualitatively, showing
also a geometrical decay beyond the exponential regime. Based on both
experimental and modeling results we put forward a general guideline for
extracting from the nonlocal spin Seebeck effect.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figure
Frequency and power dependence of spin-current emission by spin pumping in a thin film YIG/Pt system
This paper presents the frequency dependence of the spin current emission in
a hybrid ferrimagnetic insulator/normal metal system. The system is based on a
ferrimagnetic insulating thin film of Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG, 200 nm) grown
by liquid-phase-epitaxy (LPE) coupled with a normal metal with a strong
spin-orbit coupling (Pt, 15 nm). The YIG layer presents an isotropic behaviour
of the magnetization in the plane, a small linewidth, and a roughness lower
than 0.4 nm. Here we discuss how the voltage signal from the spin current
detector depends on the frequency [0.6 - 7 GHz], the microwave power, Pin, [1 -
70 mW], and the in-plane static magnetic field. A strong enhancement of the
spin current emission is observed at low frequencies, showing the appearance of
non-linear phenomena.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
Comparative Measurements of Inverse Spin Hall and Magnetoresistance in YIG|Pt and YIG|Ta
We report on a comparative study of spin Hall related effects and
magnetoresistance in YIG|Pt and YIG|Ta bilayers. These combined measurements
allow to estimate the characteristic transport parameters of both Pt and Ta
layers juxtaposed to YIG: the spin mixing conductance
at the YIGnormal metal interface, the spin Hall angle , and the
spin diffusion length in the normal metal. The inverse spin Hall
voltages generated in Pt and Ta by the pure spin current pumped from YIG
excited at resonance confirm the opposite signs of spin Hall angles in these
two materials. Moreover, from the dependence of the inverse spin Hall voltage
on the Ta thickness, we extract the spin diffusion length in Ta, found to be
nm. Both the YIG|Pt and YIG|Ta systems
display a similar variation of resistance upon magnetic field orientation,
which can be explained in the recently developed framework of spin Hall
magnetoresistance.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, 1 tabl
Magnetic resonance studies of the fundamental spin-wave modes in individual submicron Cu/NiFe/Cu perpendicularly magnetized disks
Spin wave spectra of perpendicularly magnetized disks with trilayers
consisting of a 100 nm permalloy (Py) layer sandwiched by two Cu layers of 30
nm, are measured individually with a Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope
(MRFM). It is demonstrated by 3D micromagnetic simulations that in disks having
sub-micron size diameters, the lowest energy spin wave mode of the saturated
state is not spatially uniform but rather is localized at the center of the
Py/Cu interface in the region of a minimum demagnetizing field
Observation of the spin Peltier effect
We report the observation of the spin Peltier effect (SPE) in the
ferrimagnetic insulator Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG), i.e. a heat current
generated by a spin current flowing through a Platinum (Pt)|YIG interface. The
effect can be explained by the spin torque that transforms the spin current in
the Pt into a magnon current in the YIG. Via magnon-phonon interactions the
magnetic fluctuations modulate the phonon temperature that is detected by a
thermopile close to the interface. By finite-element modelling we verify the
reciprocity between the spin Peltier and spin Seebeck effect. The observed
strong coupling between thermal magnons and phonons in YIG is attractive for
nanoscale cooling techniques.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, 4 pages supplementary information, 4
supplementary figure
Detection of the microwave spin pumping using the inverse spin Hall effect
We report electrical detection of the dynamical part of the spin pumping
current emitted during ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) using the inverse Spin
Hall Effect (ISHE). The experiment is performed on a YIGPt bilayer. The
choice of YIG, a magnetic insulator, ensures that no charge current flows
between the two layers and only pure spin current produced by the magnetization
dynamics are transferred into the adjacent strong spin-orbit Pt layer via spin
pumping. To avoid measuring the parasitic eddy currents induced at the
frequency of the microwave source, a resonance at half the frequency is induced
using parametric excitation in the parallel geometry. Triggering this nonlinear
effect allows to directly detect on a spectrum analyzer the microwave component
of the ISHE voltage. Signals as large as 30 V are measured for precession
angles of a couple of degrees. This direct detection provides a novel efficient
means to study magnetization dynamics on a very wide frequency range with great
sensitivity
Influence of yttrium iron garnet thickness and heater opacity on the nonlocal transport of electrically and thermally excited magnons
We studied the nonlocal transport behavior of both electrically and thermally
excited magnons in yttrium iron garnet (YIG) as a function of its thickness.
For electrically injected magnons, the nonlocal signals decrease monotonically
as the YIG thickness increases. For the nonlocal behavior of the thermally
generated magnons, or the nonlocal spin Seebeck effect (SSE), we observed a
sign reversal which occurs at a certain heater-detector distance, and it is
influenced by both the opacity of the YIG/heater interface and the YIG
thickness. Our nonlocal SSE results can be qualitatively explained by the
bulk-driven SSE mechanism together with the magnon diffusion model. Using a
two-dimensional finite element model (2D-FEM), we estimated the bulk spin
Seebeck coefficient of YIG at room temperature. The quantitative disagreement
between the experimental and modeled results indicates more complex processes
going on in addition to magnon diffusion and relaxation, especially close to
the contacts.Comment: 16 pages, 11 figure
Thermal simulation of magnetization reversals for size-distributed assemblies of core-shell exchange biased nanoparticles
A temperature dependent coherent magnetization reversal model is proposed for
size-distributed assemblies of ferromagnetic nanoparticles and
ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic core-shell nanoparticles. The nanoparticles are
assumed to be of uniaxial anisotropy and all aligned along their easy axis. The
thermal dependence is included by considering thermal fluctuations, implemented
via the N\'eel-Arrhenius theory. Thermal and angular dependence of
magnetization reversal loops, coercive field and exchange-bias field are
obtained, showing that F-AF size-distributed exchange-coupled nanoparticles
exhibit temperature-dependent asymmetric magnetization reversal. Also,
non-monotonic evolutions of He and Hc with T are demonstrated. The angular
dependence of Hc with T exhibits a complex behavior, with the presence of an
apex, whose position and amplitude are strongly T dependent. The angular
dependence of He with T exhibits complex behaviors, which depends on the AF
anisotropy and exchange coupling. The resulting angular behavior demonstrates
the key role of the size distribution and temperature in the magnetic response
of nanoparticles.Comment: Revised arguments in Introduction and last sectio
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