skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Chiral Spin-Wave Velocities Induced by All-Garnet Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Ultrathin Yttrium Iron Garnet Films

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [1]; ORCiD logo [4];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [4];  [1];  [8];  [9];  [5];  [10];  [3];  [4]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Beihang University, Beijing (China)
  2. Beihang University, Beijing (China); Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (Switzerland)
  3. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
  4. Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (Switzerland)
  5. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
  6. Peking Univ., Beijing (China)
  7. Beihang University, Beijing (China); Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
  8. Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen (China)
  9. Peking Univ., Beijing (China); Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China)
  10. Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen (China); Peking Univ., Beijing (China)

Spin waves can probe the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), which gives rise to topological spin textures, such as skyrmions. However, the DMI has not yet been reported in yttrium iron garnet (YIG) with arguably the lowest damping for spin waves. In this work, we experimentally evidence the interfacial DMI in a 7-nm-thick YIG film by measuring the nonreciprocal spin-wave propagation in terms of frequency, amplitude, and most importantly group velocities using all electrical spin-wave spectroscopy. The velocities of propagating spin waves show chirality among three vectors, i.e., the film normal direction, applied field, and spin-wave wave vector. By measuring the asymmetric group velocities, we extract a DMI constant of 16 μJ/m2, which we independently confirm by Brillouin light scattering. In this work, thickness-dependent measurements reveal that the DMI originates from the oxide interface between the YIG and garnet substrate. The interfacial DMI discovered in the ultrathin YIG films is of key importance for functional chiral magnonics as ultralow spin-wave damping can be achieved.

Research Organization:
Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); National Key Research and Development Program of China; National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0018994; 11674020; U1801661; 2016YFA0300802; 2017YFA0206200; ANR-12-ASTR-0023; 163016; 171003; EFMA-1641989; 51672007; 11974023; 2018B030327001; 2018B010109009
OSTI ID:
1803485
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 124, Issue 2; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (76)

Magnonics journal June 2010
YIG magnonics journal June 2010
A thermodynamic theory of “weak” ferromagnetism of antiferromagnetics journal January 1958
Universal helimagnon and skyrmion excitations in metallic, semiconducting and insulating chiral magnets journal March 2015
Magnonic logic circuits journal June 2010
Magnetic domain walls as reconfigurable spin-wave nanochannels journal February 2016
Synthetic antiferromagnetic coupling between ultra-thin insulating garnets text January 2018
Realization of spin-wave logic gates journal January 2008
Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction across an Antiferromagnet-Ferromagnet Interface journal July 2017
Tunable Snell's law for spin waves in heterochiral magnetic films journal March 2018
Nucleation, stability and current-induced motion of isolated magnetic skyrmions in nanostructures journal October 2013
Ferromagnetic exchange, spin–orbit coupling and spiral magnetism at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface journal August 2013
Frequency nonreciprocity of surface spin wave in permalloy thin films journal February 2016
Reconfigurable Spin-Wave Nonreciprocity Induced by Dipolar Interaction in a Coupled Ferromagnetic Bilayer journal September 2019
Spin-wave relaxation and phenomenological damping in ferromagnetic resonance journal April 1975
Asymmetric Spin-wave Dispersion on Fe(110): Direct Evidence of Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya Interaction text January 2017
Propagating spin waves in nanometer-thick yttrium iron garnet films: Dependence on wave vector, magnetic field strength and angle text January 2018
Nanostars on a fiber facet with near field enhancement for surface-enhanced Raman scattering detection journal October 2013
Skyrmion Lattice in a Chiral Magnet text January 2009
Spin wave power flow and caustics in ultrathin ferromagnets with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction text January 2016
Magnetic thin-film insulator with ultra-low spin wave damping for coherent nanomagnonics journal October 2014
Spin Wave Power Flow and Caustics in Ultrathin Ferromagnets with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction journal November 2016
Interface-driven chiral magnetism and current-driven domain walls in insulating magnetic garnets journal April 2019
Long distance transport of magnon spin information in a magnetic insulator at room temperature text January 2015
All electrical propagating spin wave spectroscopy with broadband wavevector capability text January 2016
Effects of second order surface anisotropy in YIG sputtered onto GGG (1 0 0) oriented substrate journal January 2019
Magnetization oscillations and waves driven by pure spin currents text January 2016
Spin-wave propagation in the presence of interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction journal November 2013
Spin-Wave Diode journal December 2015
Magnon spintronics journal June 2015
Real-space observation of a two-dimensional skyrmion crystal journal June 2010
Long-distance transport of magnon spin information in a magnetic insulator at room temperature journal September 2015
Unidirectional propagation of magnetostatic surface spin waves at a magnetic film surface journal December 2014
Transmission of electrical signals by spin-wave interconversion in a magnetic insulator journal March 2010
Making the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction visible journal June 2017
Propagating spin waves in nanometer-thick yttrium iron garnet films: Dependence on wave vector, magnetic field strength, and angle journal December 2018
Damping in Yttrium Iron Garnet Nanoscale Films Capped by Platinum journal September 2013
Enhanced Stability of Skyrmions in Two-Dimensional Chiral Magnets with Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling journal September 2014
Magnetization oscillations and waves driven by pure spin currents journal February 2017
Route toward semiconductor magnonics: Light-induced spin-wave nonreciprocity in a YIG/GaAs structure journal February 2019
Theory of dipole-exchange spin wave spectrum for ferromagnetic films with mixed exchange boundary conditions journal December 1986
Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and chiral magnetic textures in a ferrimagnetic insulator journal September 2019
Skyrmion Lattice in a Chiral Magnet journal February 2009
Current-Induced Spin-Wave Doppler Shift journal October 2008
Topological characterization of classical waves: the topological origin of magnetostatic surface spin waves text January 2019
Spin-wave excitations in finite rectangular elements of Ni 80 Fe 20 journal August 2005
Linear relation between Heisenberg exchange and interfacial Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction in metal films journal August 2015
New Mechanism of Anisotropic Superexchange Interaction journal March 1960
Large Rashba Splitting in InAs Quantum Wells due to Electron Wave Function Penetration into the Barrier Layers journal June 2000
Topological Characterization of Classical Waves: The Topological Origin of Magnetostatic Surface Spin Waves journal May 2019
All electrical propagating spin wave spectroscopy with broadband wavevector capability journal July 2016
Significant Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction at graphene–ferromagnet interfaces due to the Rashba effect journal May 2018
Magnetostatic modes of a ferromagnet slab journal May 1961
Optical and magneto-optical behavior of Cerium Yttrium Iron Garnet thin films at wavelengths of 200–1770 nm journal March 2016
Direct observation of chemical short-range order in a medium-entropy alloy journal April 2021
Excitation of microwaveguide modes by a stripe antenna journal September 2009
High-speed domain wall racetracks in a magnetic insulator journal October 2019
Creation of unidirectional spin-wave emitters by utilizing interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction journal February 2017
Nonreciprocal emission of spin-wave packet in FeNi film journal July 2010
Control of spin-wave transmission by a programmable domain wall journal November 2018
Significant Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction at Graphene-Ferromagnet Interfaces due to Rashba-effect text January 2017
Short-Wavelength Spin Waves in Yttrium Iron Garnet Micro-Channels on Silicon journal January 2016
Anisotropic Propagation and Damping of Spin Waves in a Nanopatterned Antidot Lattice journal August 2010
Spin-wave relaxation and phenomenological damping in ferromagnetic resonance conference January 1975
Influence of the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction on the spin-wave spectra of thin films journal March 2013
Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction: Effect of 5 d Band Filling and Correlation with Spin Mixing Conductance journal April 2018
Topological Hall effect at above room temperature in heterostructures composed of a magnetic insulator and a heavy metal journal May 2019
Enhanced Stability of Skyrmions in Two-Dimensional Chiral Magnets with Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling text January 2014
Perspectives of using spin waves for computing and signal processing journal May 2017
Creation of uni-directional spin-wave emitters by utilizing interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction text January 2016
Quantitative measurement of displacement and strain fields from HREM micrographs journal August 1998
Role of antiferromagnetic spin axis on magnetic reconstructions at the (111)-oriented L a 0.7 S r 0.3 Mn O 3 / LaFe O 3 interface journal August 2018
Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and chiral magnetic textures in a ferrimagnetic insulator text January 2019
All-Electrical Measurement of Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction Using Collective Spin-Wave Dynamics journal December 2015
Tunable Rashba Spin-Orbit Interaction at Oxide Interfaces journal March 2010
Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and chiral magnetic textures in a ferrimagnetic insulator text January 2019