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NANOSCALE
Volume 13, Issue 32, Pages 13709-13718Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1nr03397b
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- S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS), India [SNB/AB/11-12/96, SNB/AB/18-19/211]
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This study investigates the magnetization dynamics in graphene/ferromagnet hybrid heterostructures and reveals an inverse relationship between ultrafast demagnetization time and Gilbert damping parameter, induced by interfacial spin accumulation and pure spin-current transport. The findings can contribute to the understanding of magnetic damping and aid in the design of graphene-based ultrahigh-speed spintronic devices.
Graphene/ferromagnet hybrid heterostructures are important building blocks of spintronics due to the unique ability of graphene to transport spin current over unprecedented distances and possible increase in its spin-orbit coupling due to proximity and hybridization. Here, we present magnetization dynamics over a femtosecond to nanosecond timescale by employing an all-optical time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect technique in single-layer graphene (SLG)/CoFeB thin films with varying CoFeB thickness and compared them with reference CoFeB thin films without an SLG underlayer. Gilbert damping variation with CoFeB thickness is modelled to extract spin-mixing conductance for the SLG/CoFeB interface and isolate the two-magnon scattering contribution from spin pumping. In SLG/CoFeB, we have established an inverse relationship between ultrafast demagnetization time (tau(m)) and the Gilbert damping parameter (alpha) induced by interfacial spin accumulation and pure spin-current transport via a spin pumping mechanism. This systematic study of ultrafast demagnetization in SLG/CoFeB heterostructures and its connection with magnetic damping can help to design graphene-based ultrahigh-speed spintronic devices.
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