SPINTEC welcome visitors from Department of Physics, York University, UK. Two of them will give 2 seminars entitled:
- Enhanced magnon transport through an amorphous magnetic insulator (Stuart Cavill)
- Non-destructive imaging on buried interfaces in spintronic devices and beyond (Atsufumi Hirohata)
Date : Thursday, September 8th from 11:15 to 12:45
Place : CEA Bat. 10.05 Room 445 (limited to persons having a CEA Badge)
skype link : https://webconf.cea.fr/ioan-lucian.prejbeanu/C89D5FFJ
if this link does not work see below (*)
Abstract 1: Enhanced magnon transport through an amorphous magnetic insulator by Stuart Cavill, Associate Professor in Condensed Matter Physics
Magnonics research is focused on the transport of spin information via spin-wave, or magnon, excitations in magnetic materials. Due to its exceptionally low damping, even in thin films, the magnetic insulator Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) is considered the most prominent material in this field being widely used in spin transport experiments. New research has been stimulated by a report of the observation of exceptionally long µm magnon diffusion lengths in amorphous YIG (a-YIG) where there is no significant long range structural or ferrimagnetic order (M ≈ 0) [1]. Spin transport through disordered magnetic insulators is suggested to be mediated by short range spin correlations and is highly dependent on the relative size of the correlation length to grain size [2].
Similar non local experiments have failed to observe long range spin transport through a-YIG [3] and FMR spin-pumping in Permalloy/a-YIG/Pt trilayers provides a much lower (3.6nm) magnon diffusion length for a-YIG [4], or fails to observe magnon transport at all [5].
In this seminar I will report on the magnon diffusion length in YIG (45nm)/a-YIG(t)/Pt (5nm) trilayer structures fabricated on Gadolinium Gallium Garnet (GGG) substrates by pulsed laser deposition (PLD). In-plane VNA-FMR spectroscopy was performed to obtain the damping of the YIG in the trilayer, as a function of a-YIG thickness (t), and extract the magnon diffusion length. The experimental data shows a large change in damping with the addition of either Pt, or a-YIG plus Pt; indicating spin-pumping through the a-YIG spacer into the Pt. As the thickness of the a-YIG layer is increased the additional damping due to spin pumping into the Pt is reduced. The relationship between damping and a-YIG thickness is described, tentatively, by diffusive transport. However, a significantly longer “magnon diffusion length” for a-YIG is observed: approximately an order of magnitude larger than found in previous spin-pumping studies [4, 5].
[1] D. Wesenberg et al. NPhys 13, 987 (2017).
[2] H. Ochoa et al. Phys. Rev. B 98, 054424 (2018).
[3] J. Gomez-Perez et al. Appl. Phys. Lett.116, 032401 (2020).
[4] H. Wang et al. Phys. Rev. B. 91, 220410 (2015).
[5] L. Yang et al. Phys. Rev. B. 104, 144415 (2021).
Abstract 2 : Non-destructive imaging on buried interfaces in spintronic devices and beyond by Atsufumi Hirohata
A new method of non-destructive sub-surface interfacial characterisation has been developed recently. Such a method can be useful for quality assurance of a buried interface in nanoelectronic devices, such as magnetic random access memory. Our method is found to be able to resolve any defects and contaminations formed within the cell size of these devices, which has been fed back to the fabrication process to improve their yields. We have currently applying this method to in-situ imaging under the applications of currents and voltages to the devices, which mimic their operation conditions.
more information can be found on web pages :
https://www.york.ac.uk/physics-engineering-technology/people/cavill/
https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ah566/
(*) IF THE LINK DOES NOT WORK,
try with skype web App : https://webconf.cea.fr/ioan-lucian.prejbeanu/C89D5FFJ?sl=1
or by phone +33 1 69 35 55 10 conf ID : 5909422
