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Title: Role of damping in spin Seebeck effect in yttrium iron garnet thin films

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The role of damping in the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) was studied experimentally for the first time. The experiments used Y3Fe5O12 (YIG)/Pt bilayered structures where the YIG films exhibit very similar structural and static magnetic properties but very different damping. The data show that a decrease in the damping gives rise to an increase in the SSE coefficient, which is qualitatively consistent with some of the theoretical models. This response also shows quasi-linear behavior, which was not predicted explicitly by previous studies. The data also indicate that the SSE coefficient shows no notable correlations with the enhanced damping due to spin pumping, which can be understood in the frame of two existing models.

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  1. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States). Dept. of Physics
  2. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States). Engineering Research Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology and Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States); 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); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1418633
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1388920
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012670
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Science Advances
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher:
AAAS
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; spin Seebeck effect; Spintronics; Spin Hall effect; ferromagnetic resonance; magnetic thin films; phonons, thermal conductivity, thermoelectric, spin dynamics, spintronics

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Chang, Houchen, Praveen Janantha, P. A., Ding, Jinjun, Liu, Tao, Cline, Kevin, Gelfand, Joseph N., Li, Wei, Marconi, Mario C., and Wu, Mingzhong. Role of damping in spin Seebeck effect in yttrium iron garnet thin films. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601614.
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Chang, Houchen, Praveen Janantha, P. A., Ding, Jinjun, Liu, Tao, Cline, Kevin, Gelfand, Joseph N., Li, Wei, Marconi, Mario C., & Wu, Mingzhong. Role of damping in spin Seebeck effect in yttrium iron garnet thin films. United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601614
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Chang, Houchen, Praveen Janantha, P. A., Ding, Jinjun, Liu, Tao, Cline, Kevin, Gelfand, Joseph N., Li, Wei, Marconi, Mario C., and Wu, Mingzhong. Fri . "Role of damping in spin Seebeck effect in yttrium iron garnet thin films". United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601614. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1418633.
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@article{osti_1418633,
title = {Role of damping in spin Seebeck effect in yttrium iron garnet thin films},
author = {Chang, Houchen and Praveen Janantha, P. A. and Ding, Jinjun and Liu, Tao and Cline, Kevin and Gelfand, Joseph N. and Li, Wei and Marconi, Mario C. and Wu, Mingzhong},
abstractNote = {The role of damping in the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) was studied experimentally for the first time. The experiments used Y3Fe5O12 (YIG)/Pt bilayered structures where the YIG films exhibit very similar structural and static magnetic properties but very different damping. The data show that a decrease in the damping gives rise to an increase in the SSE coefficient, which is qualitatively consistent with some of the theoretical models. This response also shows quasi-linear behavior, which was not predicted explicitly by previous studies. The data also indicate that the SSE coefficient shows no notable correlations with the enhanced damping due to spin pumping, which can be understood in the frame of two existing models.},
doi = {10.1126/sciadv.1601614},
journal = {Science Advances},
number = 4,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {4}
}
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Fig. 1 Fig. 1: FMR properties of bare YIG thin-film samples and YIG/Pt bilayered samples. (A and B) Graphs showing the FMR field (A) and linewidth (B) as a function of frequency for two different field (H) configurations for bare YIG film sample #5. The dots show the data, and the linesmore » show the fits. The fitting-yielded parameters are also given. (C and D) Graphs presenting the FMR linewidth data (dots) and fits (lines) for six bare YIG film samples (C) and the data and fits for the corresponding YIG films after the growth of a 5-nm-thick Pt capping layer (D).« less
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