Enhanced ferromagnetic damping in Permalloy/Cu bilayers

Published

January 18, 2006

Author(s)

Thomas Gerrits, Michael Schneider, Thomas J. Silva

Abstract

We have investigated the enhancement of ferromagnetic damping for thin Permalloy (Ni₈₀Fe₂₀) films grown with Cu capping layers of variable thickness (5-1000nm). The measurements were performed with a pulsed inductive microwave magnetometer in the frequency range between 2.3 and 2.7 GHz. The damping was enhanced if the Cu layers were thicker than the spin-diffusion length of l_sapproximately equal}250 nm. For example, the damping was enhanced by 30% for a Permalloy (3 nm)/Cu (1000 nm) bilayer relative to the damping for Permalloy with a 5-nm-thick Cu capping layer. Existing theory for spin pumping for the Permalloy layer into the Cu layer was used to model the additional contribution to damping for these bilayer systems. Additional experiments on Permalloy (5 nm)/Cu(x nm)/Ta (5 nm) provided indirect evidence for spin accumulation inside the Cu layer.

Citation

Journal of Applied Physics

Volume

99

Issue

023901

Pub Type

Journals

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Keywords

magnetization dynamics, spin accumulation, spin pumping

Citation

Gerrits, T. , Schneider, M. and Silva, T. (2006), Enhanced ferromagnetic damping in Permalloy/Cu bilayers, Journal of Applied Physics, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=31954 (Accessed January 26, 2025)