Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 80, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.180415
Keywords
ferromagnetic materials; ferromagnetic resonance; fluctuations; iron; magnetic thin films; magnetic transitions; magnons; metallic thin films; Permalloy; perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; soft magnetic materials
Funding
- NSF [DMR-0706322]
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Transition-metal ferromagnetic films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) have ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) linewidths that are one order of magnitude larger than soft magnetic materials, such as pure iron (Fe) and Permalloy (NiFe) thin films. A broadband FMR setup has been used to investigate the origin of the enhanced linewidth in a material in which the PMA could be systematically reduced by irradiation with Helium ions: Ni vertical bar Co multilayers. The FMR linewidth depends linearly on frequency for perpendicular applied fields and increases significantly when the magnetization is rotated into the film plane. Irradiation of the film with Helium ions decreases the PMA and the distribution of PMA parameters, leading to a large reduction in the FMR linewidth for in-plane magnetization. These results suggest that fluctuations in PMA lead to a large two magnon scattering contribution to the linewidth for in-plane magnetization and establish that the Gilbert damping is enhanced in such materials (alpha approximate to 0.04, compared to alpha approximate to 0.002 for pure Fe).
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