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Spin-scattering rates in metallic thin films measured by ferromagnetic resonance damping enhanced by spin-pumping

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Carl T. Boone, Justin M. Shaw, Hans T. Nembach, Thomas J. Silva

Abstract

We determined the spin-transport properties of Pd and Pt thin films by measuring the increase in ferromagnetic resonance damping due to spin-pumping in ferromagnetic (FM)-nonferromagnetic metal (NM) multilayers with varying NM thicknesses. The increase in damping with NM thickness depends strongly on both the spin- and charge-transport properties of the NM, as modeled by diffusion equations that include both momentum- and spin-scattering parameters. We use the analytical solution to the spin-diffusion equations to obtain spin-diffusion lengths for Pt and Pd. By measuring the dependence of conductivity on NM thickness, we correlate the charge- and spin-transport parameters, and validate the applicability of various models for momentum- scattering and spin-scattering rates in these systems: constant, inverse-proportional (Dyakanov-Perel), and linear-proportional (Elliot-Yafet). We confirm previous reports that the spin-scattering time appears to be shorter than the momentum scattering time in Pt, and the Dyakanov-Perel-like model is the best fit to the data.
Citation
Journal of Applied Physics
Volume
117
Issue
22
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

spintronics, spin-pumping, spin-diffusion, ferromagnetic resonance, damping, Landau- Lifshitz, platinum, paladium
Materials, Metals, Nanotechnology, Nanomagnetics, Physics and Condensed matter

Citation

Boone, C. , Shaw, J. , Nembach, H. and Silva, T. (2015), Spin-scattering rates in metallic thin films measured by ferromagnetic resonance damping enhanced by spin-pumping, Journal of Applied Physics, [online], https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4922581 (Accessed October 8, 2025)

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Created June 12, 2015, Updated June 2, 2021
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