Exquisite growth control and magnetic properties of yttrium iron garnet thin films
Abstract
A layer-by-layer epitaxial growth up to 227 atomic layers of ferrimagnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG) thin films is achieved on (110)-oriented gadolinium gallium garnet substrates using pulsed laser deposition. Atomically smooth terraces are observed on YIG films up to 100 nm in thickness. The root-mean-square roughness is as low as 0.067 nm. The easy-axis lies in the film plane, indicating the dominance of shape anisotropy. For (110)-YIG films, there is well-defined two-fold in-plane anisotropy, with the easiest axis directed along [001]. The Gilbert damping constant is determined to be 1.0 × 10-4 for 100 nm thick films.
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- Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Palaiseau (France); Univ. Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau (France); Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Palaiseau (France); Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France). Lab. des Solides Irradies
- Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States). Dept. of Mechanic Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering Program
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- Research Org.:
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Spins and Heat in Nanoscale Electronic Systems (SHINES)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1371197
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1240761
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012670
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied Physics Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 108; Journal Issue: 10; Related Information: SHINES partners with University of California, Riverside (lead); Arizona State University; Colorado State University; Johns Hopkins University; University of California Irvine; University of California Los Angeles; University of Texas at Austin; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; phonons; thermal conductivity; thermoelectric; spin dynamics; spintronics
Citation Formats
Tang, Chi, Aldosary, Mohammed, Jiang, Zilong, Chang, Houchen, Madon, Benjamin, Chan, Kyle, Wu, Mingzhong, Garay, Javier E., and Shi, Jing. Exquisite growth control and magnetic properties of yttrium iron garnet thin films. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4943210.
Tang, Chi, Aldosary, Mohammed, Jiang, Zilong, Chang, Houchen, Madon, Benjamin, Chan, Kyle, Wu, Mingzhong, Garay, Javier E., & Shi, Jing. Exquisite growth control and magnetic properties of yttrium iron garnet thin films. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4943210
Tang, Chi, Aldosary, Mohammed, Jiang, Zilong, Chang, Houchen, Madon, Benjamin, Chan, Kyle, Wu, Mingzhong, Garay, Javier E., and Shi, Jing. Mon .
"Exquisite growth control and magnetic properties of yttrium iron garnet thin films". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4943210. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1371197.
@article{osti_1371197,
title = {Exquisite growth control and magnetic properties of yttrium iron garnet thin films},
author = {Tang, Chi and Aldosary, Mohammed and Jiang, Zilong and Chang, Houchen and Madon, Benjamin and Chan, Kyle and Wu, Mingzhong and Garay, Javier E. and Shi, Jing},
abstractNote = {A layer-by-layer epitaxial growth up to 227 atomic layers of ferrimagnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG) thin films is achieved on (110)-oriented gadolinium gallium garnet substrates using pulsed laser deposition. Atomically smooth terraces are observed on YIG films up to 100 nm in thickness. The root-mean-square roughness is as low as 0.067 nm. The easy-axis lies in the film plane, indicating the dominance of shape anisotropy. For (110)-YIG films, there is well-defined two-fold in-plane anisotropy, with the easiest axis directed along [001]. The Gilbert damping constant is determined to be 1.0 × 10-4 for 100 nm thick films.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4943210},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
number = 10,
volume = 108,
place = {United States},
year = {2016},
month = {3}
}
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