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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 115, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5120249
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We present a spintronic terahertz emitter based on a ferrimagnetic gadolinium-iron alloy (GdxFe1-x) and platinum (Pt). We measure the magnetic-field-dependent terahertz emission of GdxFe1-x/Pt spintronic heterostructures in the entire composition range (0 <= x <= 1). Excellent agreement is found between the measured data and a theoretical model based on the ratio of in-plane and saturation magnetization, up to a Gd content of x = 0.4 for all applied fields. At a higher Gd content (x >= 0.6), the measured terahertz amplitudes and the model deviate, due to the increasing influence of Gd. The GdxFe1-x/Pt emitters share similar properties with TbxFe1-x/Pt emitters, such as a strong increase in terahertz emission for a small rare earth content. However, our systematic study demonstrates that the terahertz emission amplitude of GdxFe1-x/Pt is up to 17 times higher than that of TbxFe1-x/Pt, which is important for the use and further optimization of these spintronic emitters operating at room temperature.
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