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Frequency and power dependence of spin-current emission by spin pumping in a thin film YIG/Pt system

Materials Science 2015-06-05 v2

Abstract

This paper presents the frequency dependence of the spin current emission in a hybrid ferrimagnetic insulator/normal metal system. The system is based on a ferrimagnetic insulating thin film of Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG, 200 nm) grown by liquid-phase-epitaxy (LPE) coupled with a normal metal with a strong spin-orbit coupling (Pt, 15 nm). The YIG layer presents an isotropic behaviour of the magnetization in the plane, a small linewidth, and a roughness lower than 0.4 nm. Here we discuss how the voltage signal from the spin current detector depends on the frequency [0.6 - 7 GHz], the microwave power, Pin, [1 - 70 mW], and the in-plane static magnetic field. A strong enhancement of the spin current emission is observed at low frequencies, showing the appearance of non-linear phenomena.

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@article{arxiv.1206.6671,
  title  = {Frequency and power dependence of spin-current emission by spin pumping in a thin film YIG/Pt system},
  author = {Vincent Castel and Jamal Ben Youssef and Nynke Vlietstra and Bart van Wees},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.6671},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages, 5 figures