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KR: Fachgruppe Kristallographie

KR 5: Poster I – including Multiferroics (MA with DF, DS, KR, TT)

KR 5.64: Poster

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

Optimization of spin-valve structures for spin-pumping experiments — •Christian Swoboda, Nils Kuhlmann, Andreas Vogel, Toru Matsuyama, and Guido Meier — Institut für Angewandte Physik und Zentrum für Mikrostrukturforschung, Universität Hamburg, Jungiusstrasse 11, 20355 Hamburg, Germany

In recent years, high-frequency phenomena of magnetic nanostructures have been studied intensively since they are expected to provide new technological applications as well as fundamental understanding of spin dynamics. Currently, the combination of magnetization dynamics and spin transport, the spin-pumping effect [1, 2], is of great interest. First experimental results including the detection of pure spin currents have been presented [3]. The aim of our work is to build an all-metal lateral spin-valve [4], where the spins are injected into an adjacent normal-metal via a ferromagnet with precessing magnetization at ferromagnetic resonance (spin-pumping). The lateral spin-valve device enables to detect and to quantify the pure spin current via a second ferromagnet. Besides the basic concept of a lateral spin-valve device operated by spin-pumping, we present a detailed study of the magnetization dynamics of the ferromagnetic electrodes. We optimized geometry and center-to-center distance of the electrodes in order to enhance the spin-pumping efficiency.

[1] Y. Tserkovnyak et. al., PRL 88, 117601 (2002); [2] A. Brataas et. al., PRB 66, 060404 (2002); [3] M.V. Costache et. al., PRB 78, 064423 (2008); [4] A. Vogel et. al., APL 94, 122510 (2009)