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Temperature Control of Spin-Wave Spectra in Continuously Graded Epitaxial Pd-Fe Alloy Films

Igor Yanilkin·Amir Gumarov·Bulat Gabbasov·Roman Yusupov·Lenar Tagirov
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Continuously graded ferromagnetic thin films represent a new class of magnonic materials, where a spin-wave resonance spectrum can be tuned in resonance frequencies/fields, number of modes and even dispersion law by the magnetic properties profiling across the film thickness. In the paper, we demonstrate that temperature is another degree of freedom controlling the spin-wave spectra in graded magnetic materials. We show that temperature affects the spectrum not only in a trivial way via the temperature dependence of magnetization and related quantities, but rather through modification of magnetic structure of a film due to the Curie temperature being crossed by fractions of its thickness. The profile that is continuous at lower temperatures may become discontinuous at higher temperatures. To demonstrate this, four 200-nm thick vertically graded epitaxial Pd1-xFex films were synthesized using molecular beam epitaxy technique, in particular, two with the linear (2-10 at.% and 12-18 at.% range of the iron content), one with the sine and one with the cosine (both with the 2-10 at.% range of the iron content) distribution profiles. The resonance spectra of standing spin waves were studied by the cavity ferromagnetic resonance at 9.4 GHz in the temperature range of 20-300 K. Versatile spin-wave excitation patterns were obtained, and drastic evolution of their excitation energies, and number of modes with temperature was observed. Based on the modeling, temperature dependences of the spin-wave stiffness D and magnitudes of the interface $α_{inter}$ and surface $α_{surf}$ pinning constants were obtained. Our study shows that in addition to a continuous grading of magnetic properties of thin films, temperature provides another powerful and well elaborated tool for modifying the magnetic grading profile and thus, flexile tuning the spectrum of spin-wave excitations.

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Igor Yanilkin, Amir Gumarov, Bulat Gabbasov, Roman Yusupov, Lenar Tagirov. 2024-11-25. Temperature Control of Spin-Wave Spectra in Continuously Graded Epitaxial Pd-Fe Alloy Films. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16323

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