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DF: Fachverband Dielektrische Festkörper

DF 9: Poster I - Biomagnetism, FePt Nanoparticles, Magnetic Particles/Clusters, Magnetic Materials, Magnetic Semiconductors, Half-metals/Oxides, Multiferroics, Topological Insulators, Spin structures/Phase transitions, Electron theory/Computational micromagnetics, Magnetic coupling phenomena/Exchange bias, Spin-dependent transport, Spin injection/spin currents, Magnetization/Demagnetization dynamics, Magnetic measurement techniques

DF 9.86: Poster

Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 12:15–15:15, Poster A

Quantitative modeling of elastically driven ferromagnetic resonance — •Matthias Pernpeintner¹, Mathias Weiler¹, Lukas Dreher², Hans Huebl¹, Christian Heeg¹, Rudolf Gross¹, Martin S. Brandt², and Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein¹ — ¹Walther-Meißner-Institut, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 85748 Garching, Germany — ²Walter Schottky Institut, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany

In conventional ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) experiments, an external radio frequency magnetic field drives the magnetization precession. Recently, it has been shown that FMR can be excited all elastically by means of coherent phonons [1]. In this acoustically driven FMR, the magnetoelastic coupling of surface acoustic waves (SAW) in the GHz frequency range with a thin ferromagnetic film is exploited.

Here we show that acoustically driven FMR can be phenomenologically modeled using a modified Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert approach in which the SAW induces an internal, virtual magnetic driving field. In a quantitative analysis, the magnetization dynamics are calculated as a function of external magnetic field magnitude and orientation. Full quantitative agreement of this simulation and SAW transmission experiments performed in a Ni/LiNbO₃ hybrid device is shown, using a set of parameters consistent with literature data.

This opens the path for further experimental studies of resonant magnon-phonon coupling and acoustic spin current generation using elastically driven magnetization dynamics.

[1] M. Weiler et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 117601 (2011).