Non-local detection of spin dynamics via spin rectification effect in yttrium iron garnet/SiO{sub 2}/NiFe trilayers near simultaneous ferromagnetic resonance

Journal Article · Sat Aug 15 04:00:00 EDT 2015 · AIP Advances

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4930079· OSTI ID:22492334

Ong, C. K. ^[1]; Peng, Bin ^[2]

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1. Center for Superconducting and Magnetic Materials, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117551 (Singapore)
2. State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054 (China)

The spin rectification effect (SRE), a phenomenon that generates dc voltages from ac microwave fields incident onto a conducting ferromagnet, has attracted widespread attention due to its high sensitivity to ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) as well as its relevance to spintronics. Here, we report the non-local detection of yttrium iron garnet (YIG) spin dynamics by measuring SRE voltages from an adjacent conducting NiFe layer up to 200 nm thick. In particular, we detect, within the NiFe layer, SRE voltages stemming from magnetostatic surface spin waves (MSSWs) of the adjacent bulk YIG which are excited by a shorted coaxial probe. These non-local SRE voltages within the NiFe layer that originates from YIG MSSWs are present even in 200 nm-thick NiFe films with a 50 nm thick SiO{sub 2} spacer between NiFe and YIG, thus strongly ruling out the mechanism of spin-pumping induced inverse spin Hall effect in NiFe as the source of these voltages. This long-range influence of YIG dynamics is suggested to be mediated by dynamic fields generated from YIG spin precession near YIG/NiFe interface, which interacts with NiFe spins near the simultaneous resonance of both spins, to generate a non-local SRE voltage within the NiFe layer.

• OSTI ID: 22492334
• Journal Information: AIP Advances, Journal Name: AIP Advances Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 5; ISSN AAIDBI; ISSN 2158-3226
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
ELECTRIC POTENTIAL
FERRITE GARNETS
FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS
FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE
FERROMAGNETISM
FILMS
HALL EFFECT
INTERFACES
IRON OXIDES
MICROWAVE RADIATION
PRECESSION
SILICA
SILICON OXIDES
SPIN
SPIN WAVES
SURFACES
YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS