Low Gilbert damping and high perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in an Ir-coupled L10-FePd-based synthetic antiferromagnet

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June 10, 2024

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William Peria, Michael Katz, Jian-Ping Wang, Paul Crowell, Daniel Gopman

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Thin ferromagnetic films possessing perpendicular magnetic anisotropy derived from the crystal lattice can deliver the requisite magnetocrystalline anisotropy density for thermally stable magnetic memory and logic devices at the single-digit-nm lateral size. Here, we demonstrate that an epitaxial synthetic antiferromagnet can be formed from L10 FePd, a candidate material with large magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy, through insertion of an ultrathin Ir spacer. Tuning of the Ir spacer thickness leads to synthetic antiferromagnetically coupled FePd layers, with an interlayer exchange field upwards of 0.6 T combined with a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy energy of 0.95 MJ/m3 and a low Gilbert damping of 0.01. Temperature-dependent ferromagnetic resonance measurements show that the Gilbert damping is mostly insensitive to temperature over a range of 20 K up to 300 K. In FePd|Ir|FePd trilayers with lower interlayer exchange coupling, optic- and acoustic dynamic ferromagnetic resonance modes are explored as a function of temperature. The ability to engineer low damping and large interlayer exchange coupling in FePd|Ir|FePd synthetic antiferromagnets with high perpendicular magnetic anisotropy could prove useful for high performance spintronic devices.

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Scientific Reports

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Peria, W. , Katz, M. , Wang, J. , Crowell, P. and Gopman, D. (2024), Low Gilbert damping and high perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in an Ir-coupled L10-FePd-based synthetic antiferromagnet, Scientific Reports, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=936430 (Accessed November 23, 2025)