Influence of Thickness and Interface on the Low-Temperature Enhancement of the Spin Seebeck Effect in YIG Films
Abstract
The temperature-dependent longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (LSSE) in heavy metal (HM)/Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) hybrid structures is investigated as a function of YIG film thickness, magnetic field strength, and different HM detection materials. The LSSE signal shows a large enhancement with reductions in temperature, leading to a pronounced peak at low temperatures. Here we find that the LSSE peak temperature strongly depends on the film thickness as well as on the magnetic field. Our result can be well explained in the framework of magnon-driven LSSE by taking into account the temperature-dependent effective propagation length of thermally excited magnons in the bulk of the material. We further demonstrate that the LSSE peak is significantly shifted by changing the interface coupling to an adjacent detection layer, revealing a more complex behavior beyond the currently discussed bulk effect. By direct microscopic imaging of the interface, we correlate the observed temperature dependence with the interface structure between the YIG and the adjacent metal layer. Finally, our results highlight the role of interface effects on the temperature-dependent LSSE in HM/YIG system, suggesting that the temperature-dependent spin current transparency strikingly relies on the interface conditions.
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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- USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; German Research Foundation (DFG)
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- OSTI ID: 1319211
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- Physical Review. X
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- Journal Name: Physical Review. X Journal Volume: 6 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2160-3308
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- American Physical Society
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- United States
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- English
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- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
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Guo, Er-Jia, Cramer, Joel, Kehlberger, Andreas, Ferguson, Ciaran A., MacLaren, Donald A., Jakob, Gerhard, and Kläui, Mathias. Influence of Thickness and Interface on the Low-Temperature Enhancement of the Spin Seebeck Effect in YIG Films. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.6.031012.
Guo, Er-Jia, Cramer, Joel, Kehlberger, Andreas, Ferguson, Ciaran A., MacLaren, Donald A., Jakob, Gerhard, & Kläui, Mathias. Influence of Thickness and Interface on the Low-Temperature Enhancement of the Spin Seebeck Effect in YIG Films. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.031012
Guo, Er-Jia, Cramer, Joel, Kehlberger, Andreas, Ferguson, Ciaran A., MacLaren, Donald A., Jakob, Gerhard, and Kläui, Mathias. Wed .
"Influence of Thickness and Interface on the Low-Temperature Enhancement of the Spin Seebeck Effect in YIG Films". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.031012.
@article{osti_1273680,
title = {Influence of Thickness and Interface on the Low-Temperature Enhancement of the Spin Seebeck Effect in YIG Films},
author = {Guo, Er-Jia and Cramer, Joel and Kehlberger, Andreas and Ferguson, Ciaran A. and MacLaren, Donald A. and Jakob, Gerhard and Kläui, Mathias},
abstractNote = {The temperature-dependent longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (LSSE) in heavy metal (HM)/Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) hybrid structures is investigated as a function of YIG film thickness, magnetic field strength, and different HM detection materials. The LSSE signal shows a large enhancement with reductions in temperature, leading to a pronounced peak at low temperatures. Here we find that the LSSE peak temperature strongly depends on the film thickness as well as on the magnetic field. Our result can be well explained in the framework of magnon-driven LSSE by taking into account the temperature-dependent effective propagation length of thermally excited magnons in the bulk of the material. We further demonstrate that the LSSE peak is significantly shifted by changing the interface coupling to an adjacent detection layer, revealing a more complex behavior beyond the currently discussed bulk effect. By direct microscopic imaging of the interface, we correlate the observed temperature dependence with the interface structure between the YIG and the adjacent metal layer. Finally, our results highlight the role of interface effects on the temperature-dependent LSSE in HM/YIG system, suggesting that the temperature-dependent spin current transparency strikingly relies on the interface conditions.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevX.6.031012},
journal = {Physical Review. X},
number = 3,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Wed Jul 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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