From Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2019
Magnetic damping impacts essential dynamics for spintronic device applications, but its fundamental mechanisms in various materials – including simple ferromagnetic metals – have yet to be understood. Here, we experimentally correlate damping with structural and transport properties of epitaxial thin films of Fe. At room temperature, the effective Gilbert damping parameter is independent of whether these films are coherently strained or partially relaxed. However, at low temperature, we find that coherently strained Fe films with higher crystalline quality and conductivity exhibit higher damping. The enhancement of low-temperature damping is greater than that from classical eddy current loss. Our observation of such conductivity-like damping, possibly governed by the intraband scattering mechanism [1], provides fundamental insight into the role of crystallinity in damping in ferromagnetic metals.
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Behrouz Khodadadi, Anish Rai, Bhuwan Nepal, Arjun Sapkota, Abhishek Srivastava, Claudia Mewes, Sujan Budhathoki, Adam J. Hauser, Min Gao, Jie-Fang Li, Dwight D. Viehland, Zijian Jiang, Jean J. Heremans, Tim Mewes, and Satoru Emori, "Conductivity-like damping in epitaxial Fe (Conference Presentation)," Proc. SPIE 11090, Spintronics XII, 1109021 (Presented at SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering: August 13, 2019; Published: 10 September 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2528426.6083795923001.