Pseudomorphic Yttrium Iron Garnet Thin Films with Low Damping and Inhomogeneous Linewidth Broadening

Brandon M. Howe; Satoru Emori; Hyung Min Jeon; Trevor M. Oxholm; John G. Jones; Krishnamurthy Mahalingam; Yan Zhuang; Nian X. Sun; Gail J. Brown

doi:10.1109/LMAG.2015.2449260

Pseudomorphic Yttrium Iron Garnet Thin Films with Low Damping and Inhomogeneous Linewidth Broadening

Brandon M. Howe
, Satoru Emori
, Hyung Min Jeon
, Trevor M. Oxholm
, John G. Jones
, Krishnamurthy Mahalingam
, Yan Zhuang
, Nian X. Sun
, Gail J. Brown

Electrical Engineering

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Nanometer-thick yttrium iron garnet films, grown on gadolinium gallium garnet substrates by pulsed laser deposition, exhibit remarkably high crystallinity and atomically smooth surfaces. The pseudomorphic growth mechanism leads to large negative out-of-plane uniaxial anisotropy, narrow resonance linewidths, and minimal damping. Magnetic resonance measurements indicate that both the Gilbert damping parameter and inhomogeneous linewidth broadening Δ Hpp,0 are consistently low for films of various thicknesses. Even at film thickness ≈ 20 nm, we attain α 2× 10-4 and Δ Hpp,0 ≈ 1 Oe, which are among the lowest values ever reported.

Original language	English
Article number	7132706
Journal	IEEE Magnetics Letters
Volume	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LMAG.2015.2449260
State	Published - 2015

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

Keywords

ferromagnetic resonance
magnetic damping
Magnetodynamics
yttrium iron garnet
ferromagnetic resonance, magnetic damping, Magnetodynamics, yttrium iron garnet

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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