Damping Enhancement in Coherent Ferrite–Insulating-Paramagnet Bilayers

Wisser, Jacob J.; Grutter, Alexander J.; Gilbert, Dustin A.; N’Diaye, Alpha T.; Klewe, Christoph; Shafer, Padraic; Arenholz, Elke; Suzuki, Yuri; Emori, Satoru

doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.12.054044

Title: Damping Enhancement in Coherent Ferrite–Insulating-Paramagnet Bilayers

Journal Article · 19 November 2019 · Physical Review Applied

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.12.054044 · OSTI ID:1631611

Wisser, Jacob J. ^[1];

^[2]; Gilbert, Dustin A. ^[3]; N’Diaye, Alpha T. ^[4]; Klewe, Christoph ^[4]; Shafer, Padraic ^[4]; Arenholz, Elke ^[5]; Suzuki, Yuri ^[1];

^[6]

Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States). Center for Neutron Research
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS); Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Ithaca, NY (United States)
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)

High-quality epitaxial ferrites, such as low-damping Mg Al -ferrite (MAFO), are promising nanoscale building blocks for all-oxide heterostructures driven by pure spin current. However, the impact of oxide interfaces on spin dynamics in such heterostructures remains an open question. Here in this paper, we investigate the spin dynamics and chemical and magnetic depth profiles of 15-nm-thick MAFO coherently interfaced with an isostructural 1–8-nm-thick overlayer of paramagnetic CoCr₂O₄ (CCO) as an all-oxide model system. Compared to MAFO without an overlayer, effective Gilbert damping in MAFO/CCO is enhanced by a factor of > 3, irrespective of the CCO overlayer thickness. We attribute this damping enhancement to spin scattering at the approximately 1-nm-thick chemically disordered layer at the MAFO-CCO interface, rather than spin pumping or proximity-induced magnetism. Our results indicate that damping in ferrite-based heterostructures is strongly influenced by interfacial chemical disorder, even if the thickness of the disordered layer is a small fraction of the ferrite thickness.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; N00014-15-1-0045; SC0008505

OSTI ID:: 1631611

Journal Information:: Physical Review Applied, Vol. 12, Issue 5; ISSN 2331-7019

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