Structural, static and dynamic magnetic properties of CoMnGe thin films on a sapphire a-plane substrate

Details Structural, static and dynamic magnetic properties of CoMnGe thin films on a sapphire a-plane substrate Structural, static and dynamic magnetic properties of CoMnGe thin films on a sapphire a-plane substrate

2010-05-25

arxiv.org/abs/1005.4595v3

J.Appl.Phys.108:063926,2010

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

7 pages, 7 figures, To be published (Journal of Applied Physics)

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3475501

Magnetic properties of CoMnGe thin films of different thicknesses (13, 34, 55, 83, 100 and 200 nm), grown by RF sputtering at 400{\deg}C on single crystal sapphire substrates, were studied using vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM) and conventional or micro-strip line (MS) ferromagnetic resonance (FMR). Their behavior is described assuming a magnetic energy density showing twofold and fourfold in-plane anisotropies with some misalignment between their principal directions. For all the samples, the easy axis of the fourfold anisotropy is parallel to the c-axis of the substrate while the direction of the twofold anisotropy easy axis varies from sample to sample and seems to be strongly influenced by the growth conditions. Its direction is most probably monitored by the slight unavoidable angle of miscut the Al2O3 substrate. The twofold in-plane anisotropy field is almost temperature independent, in contrast with the fourfold field which is a decreasing function of the temperature. Finally, we study the frequency dependence of the observed line-width of the resonant mode and we conclude to a typical Gilbert damping constant of 0.0065 for the 55-nm-thick film.

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