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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 100, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3690918
Keywords
ferrimagnetic materials; ferromagnetic resonance; gold; ion beam assisted deposition; iron; magnetic thin films; metal-insulator boundaries; spin polarised transport; yttrium compounds
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIfAR)
- U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [GRANTS:14056503, 0906489] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Spin injection across the ferrimagnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG)/normal metal Au interface was studied using ferromagnetic resonance. The spin mixing conductance was determined by comparing the Gilbert damping parameter alpha in YIG/Au and YIG/Au/Fe heterostructures. The main purpose of this study was to correlate the spin pumping efficiency with chemical modifications of the YIG film surface using in situ etching and deposition techniques. By means of Ar+ ion beam etching, one is able to increase the spin mixing conductance at the YIG/Au interface by a factor of 5 compared to the untreated YIG/Au interface. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3690918]
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