Systems of magnetic nanowires are considered strong candidates in many technological applications as microwave filters, sensors or devices for data storage. Because of their strong potential as candidates in such applications they became lately the object of many studies. However, due to the very complicated nature of the interwire interactions, their magnetic behavior is very difficult to be interpreted. The main parameter controlling the response of magnetic nanowires assemblies is the aspect ratio of the nanowires that is defined as the ratio of the length to the wire's diameter. In our study we choose to modify the aspect ratio by keeping a constant length of nanowires and modifying the wire's diameter while keeping the same interwire distance. The samples were studied at room temperature, using vibrating sample magnetometer and X-band ferromagnetic resonance experiments. The results are explained taking into account the effects of the magnetostatic interactions and shape anisotropy.

The work in this thesis is divided in three parts. In part one we developed electrodeposition method of Nickel Nanowire in commercial AAO template in constant current (Galvanostatic) mode, further we tried to estimate the growth rate from theory, from saturation magnetization and direct measurement from SEM image. In part two we focused on using the Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) to measure the Ferromagnetic Resonance (FMR))of various magnetic Nanowire arrays. We employed different measurement geometries using microstripline and coplanar waveguide as microwave transmission lines. In part three our aim was to study the magnetic properties of complex ferromagnetic system, especially the effect of interactions on dynamic properties of magnetic nanostructures (nanowire arrays and exchange biased ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic multilayers). Our effort was centered on using ferromagnetic resonance to understand the dynamic response of these systems.

The high-frequency properties of coupled magnetic systems have been investigated using vector network analyzer ferromagnetic resonance (VNA-FMR) spectroscopy. SAF structures consist of two ferromagnetic layers separated by a non-magnetic spacer, coupled through the indirect exchange interaction. The ferromagnetic layers of our samples were composed of FeCoB separated by a layer of Ru. The thickness of Ru was varied in the range of 8 to 18 Å among the samples studied. Antiferromagnetic coupling can be quickly identified by the major hysteresis loop (MHL). A new way of displaying FMR data for these trilayer samples is presented which completely preserves the anisotropy effects while fully characterizing the angular dependence of FMR. The advantage of our representation is that the high-frequency data can be easily compared to the static switching behavior at any angle obtained through susceptibility measurements. Ferromagnetic resonance; Coupled; Synthetic antiferromagnet; Magnetization switching

Previous investigations of FePd circular island arrays have shown the hysteresis-free switching from vortex to collinear magnetic state at high temperatures [1]. This raises interest in the exploration of the temperature and inter-island interaction effect on the magnetization dynamics in this kind of structures. Ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) measurements allow for the investigation of the magnetization response to time-dependent magnetic field excitations. In this work, the dynamics of a square lattice of circular Fe20Pd80 alloy islands were investigated. The micromagnetic simulations of FMR response were carried out with the parameters similar to those used in the experiments. The experimentally measured FMR absorption spectra were qualitatively reproduced employing micromagnetic simulations. Furthermore, the spatial maps of th estanding spin wave modes were calculated. It was confirmed that the features arising in the FMR absorption spectra are governed by both the temperature and the inter-island interactions.

Organic semiconductors have recently been found to have a comparably large spin diffusion time and length. This makes them ideal candidates for spintronic devices. However, spin injection, transport and detection properties in organic materials have yet to be fully understood. This work studies spin injection from ferromagnets into organic semiconductors via spin pumping. Furthermore, work towards thermal spin injection, and detection is presented and discussed. The first part of this thesis comprises the spin pumping experiments. Measuring linewidth broadening of the microwave absorption at ferromagnetic resonance due to increase in effective Gilbert damping by spin pumping from a ferromagnetic substrate into an adjacent non-magnetic semiconductor allows us to quantify the spin-mixing conductance. This technique is employed to demonstrate spin injection from a ferromagnetic metal, permalloy (Ni81Fe19), into organic small molecules and conjugated polymers as well as to quantify the spin injection efficiency. The results highlight the importance of structural properties of organic semiconductors at the interface to permalloy. Significant suppression of spin injection due to alkyl side-chains separating the core of the small molecules from the interface is exemplary for this finding. Furthermore, the spin-mixing conductance depends very sensitively on the charge carrier density within a certain range of doping level. This suggests a strong link between spin injection efficiency and spin concentration in the organic semiconductor at the interface to permalloy. The second part of the thesis aims to explore spin caloritronic effects. We study spin injection into organic semiconductors by probing the spin Seebeck effect by making use of the inverse spin Hall effect for spin-to-charge conversion. Moreover, we present experimental work towards observation of a novel effect, the inverse spin Nernst effect, for thermal spin detection.

Arthur F. Kip and Robert D. Arnold. / "December 21, 1948." / Includes bibliographical references. / Supported by the Army Signal Corps. W-36-039-sc-32037 102B Supported by the Dept. of the Army. 3-99-10-022

The high frequency dynamic magnetic responses of FeCo thin films and structures have been investigated mainly using ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) technique. The FMR resonance condition and linewidth are first derived from the dynamic Landau- Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, followed by a study of the conversion between FMR field and frequency linewidths. It is found that the linewidth conversion relation based on the derivative of resonance condition is only valid for samples with negligible extrinsic linewidth contribution. The dynamic magnetic properties obtained by using FMR measurements of FeCo thin films grown on Si/SiO2 substrates with varying deposition temperatures is then presented. The effective Landé g-factor, extrinsic linewidth, and Gilbert relaxation rate are all found to decrease in magnitude with increasing sample growth temperature from 20oC to about 400–500oC and then on further increase of the growth temperature to increase in magnitude. Samples grown at about 400–450oC display the smallest coercivity, while the smallest value of the Gilbert relaxation rate of about 0.1 GHz is obtained for samples grown at 450–500oC. An almost linear relation between extrinsic linewidth and coercivity is observed, which suggests a positive correlation between magnetic inhomogeneity, coercivity and extrinsic linewidth. Another major discovery in this study is that the Gilbert relaxation decreases with increasing lattice constant, which is ascribed to the degree of structural order in the films. A micromagnetic model is established for an asymmetric trilayer system consisting of two different ferromagnetic (FM) layers separated by thin non-magnetic (NM) layer, treating the magnetization in each FM layer as a macrospin. Based on the model, numerical simulations of magnetization curves and FMR dispersion relations, of both the acoustic mode where magentizations in the two FM layers precess in phase and the optic mode where they precess out-of-phase, have been carried out. The most significant implication from the results is that the coupling strength can be extracted by detecting only the acoustic mode resonances at many different unsaturated magnetic states using broadband FMR technique. Finally, trilayer films of FeCo(100 Å)/NM/FeNi(100 Å) with NM=Ru or Cu were prepared and studied. The thickness of the Ru and Cu spacer was varied from 0 to 50 Å. For the Ru spacer series, the film with 10 Å Ru spacer shows antiferromagnetic coupling while all other films are ferromagnetically coupled. For the Cu spacer trilayers, it is found that all films are ferromagnetically coupled and that films with thin Cu spacer are surprisingly strongly coupled (the coupling constant is 3 erg/cm2 for the sample with 5 Å Cu spacer). The strong coupling strength is qualitatively understood within the framework of a combined effect of Ruderman-Kittel- Kasuya-Yosida interaction and pinhole coupling, which is evidenced by transmission electron microscopy analysis. The magnetic coupling constant decreases exponentially with increasing Cu spacer thickness, without showing an oscillatory thickness dependence. The results have implications for the design of multilayers for spintronic applications.

Magnetic materials are one of the most interesting and promising class of materials for technological applications [1]. Among them, patterned ferromagnetic systems have an important role especially in the prospect of high density data storage [2], domain wall logic devices [3] and magnetic memory [4, 5]. Coupled systems of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic materials have been implemented to design sensors such as giant magnetoresistance (GMR) [6-8] and tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) [9, 10]. Ferromagnetic nanoparticles have been used for the drug targeting, cancer therapy, MRI and many more applications [11, 12]. In addition, more recently, significant attention has been paid to explore the dynamic properties of magnetic materials in the GHz range and use them for technological applications such as microwave filters, signal processing, phase shifter, nonreciprocal microwave devices, spin wave guide, high frequency memory, logic elements [13-19] Boundary conditions, interactions between individual entities, and lateral confinement of magnetic charges generate diverse magnetic properties especially at nanoscale length [20, 21]. The variation of magnetic properties are even quite different when the size of the magnetic structure is smaller or comparable with the magnetic characteristic length such as mean free path of electron, width of domain wall and even the spin diffusion length [22-24]. In this study, we have considered different magnetic systems. Firstly, the multilayer of coupled ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic system has been considered to evaluate the exchange bias anisotropy. [FeNi/IrMn]n multilayer systems with different thicknesses of ferromagnetic layer were studied. Static and dynamic properties were revealed through magnetometry measurements (VSM) and VNA-FMR techniques respectively. Angular variation of first order reversal curve (AFORC) and ferromagnetic resonance (AFMR) were performed to learn the intrinsic exchange bias distribution. Secondly, patterned magnetic structures were synthesized to understand the magnetization dynamics in confined geometry. Surface modulated thin films with different periodicity, dumbbell-shaped structures with variable size and three dimensional magnonic crystals have been studied using both static and dynamic measurement techniques. Micromagnetic simulations were performed to understand and explain the experimental results.

The X-band FMR has been employed to investigate the angular variation of resonance Fields of DC sputtered Co-Cr Films with different substrate temperatures. This angular variation has been Fitted with the classical uniaxial anisotropy crystal model and yields the values of 2K₁/M-4πM=-4∼-7 KOe, 4K₂ =-0.8∼0.8 KOe and g-factor = 2.3~2.8. The FMR measurments of the first anisotropy constant are quite different from the counterparts measured with VSM. This discrepancy is interpreted as a result of the formation of two ferromagnetic phases. With this simple model, the substrate temperature dependence of First anisotropy is explained and it is predicted that a lower substrate temperature will improve the Co-Cr Films for their potential application in perpendicular magnetic recording devices. The angular dependence of the FMR linewidth is discussed. / Science, Faculty of / Physics and Astronomy, Department of / Graduate

Orientadora: Fanny Béron / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-28T23:44:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Soares_Gabriel_M.pdf: 11563028 bytes, checksum: 679e40dbf51a0c4198966c4f0eee8e20 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Desde a descoberta dos filmes finos magnéticos com anisotropia perpendicular, ou PMAs (Perpendicular Magentic Anisotropy, em inglês), se tornou possível aumentar drasticamente a densidade de dados em discos rígidos. Uma maneira de continuar a incrementar a densidade final de dados seria desalinhar o eixo de anisotropia uniaxial e o campo magnético de escrita. Para isso, necessita-se de materiais com anisotropia magnética intermediária, i.e, na qual o seu eixo fácil está entre a longitudinal ao plano e a sua perpendicular. A situação ótima seria com o eixo fácil a 450, teoricamente dobrando a densidade final. No entanto, fabricar grãos ou filmes com esta propriedade não é viável do ponto de vista industrial. Todavia, bicamadas podem ser utilizadas para imitar este comportamento, onde um filme com anisotropia longitudinal é depositado sobre um PMA. Além do mais, esta abordagem apresenta a possibilidade de maior velocidade de escrita. Bicamadas de CoCrPt/Ni podem ser utilizadas para este propósito, com a camada de CoCrPt como PMA e a de Ni com anisotropia longitudinal. O experimento de ressonância ferromagnética permite, a priori, resolver as contribuições de anisotropia de cada camada no sistema de bicamadas, juntamente com os mecanismos de amortecimento magnético. O objetivo principal desta dissertação de mestrado é introduzir os conceitos de experimentação e teoria desta técnica, e aplicá-los nas bicamadas de CoCrPt/Ni. Neste trabalho foram utilizados filmes já depositados por sputtering com 10 nm de Co66Cr22Pt12, seguidos de 5 a 40 nm de Ni, para investigar o efeito da camada com anisotropia longitudinal sobre o PMA. Um outro conjunto de amostras contém um espaçador de Ti entre as camadas magnéticas, a fim de se estudar a interação na interface entre elas. Os experimentos de ressonância foram realizados em varredura de frequência num analisador de rede vetorial com campos magnéticos aplicados longitudinais ou perpendiculares e numa cavidade de banda X (9,54GHZ) em função da orientação do campo aplicado. Foi verificado qualitativamente o decréscimo da energia de anisotropia longitudinal com menores espessuras de Ni nas bicamadas. No entanto, não foi possível observar a linha de absorção da camada de CoCrPt, e consequentemente, encontrar unequivocamente as constantes de anisotropia do sistema, muito menos confirmar o comportamento multiaxial encontrado. Não obstante, foi confirmado a natureza de curto alcance da interação entre as camadas. Nova experimentação em outras bandas de frequência é necessária, afim de identificar a absorção do CoCrPt. Uma perspectiva futura interessante é o estudo da largura de linha e o amortecimento magnético do sistema devido a interação envolvida / Abstract: Since the advent of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy media, or PMAs, it was possible to greatly enhance the data density of hard drives. A method to push forward the data density increase is to misalign the anisotropy and applied field axes. This can be achieved by tilted media, i.e., in which the anisotropy axis lays somewhere between in-plane (IP) and out-of-plane (OOP). The optimal condition is with the axis tilted by 45\textsuperscript{0}. However, produce this kind of material is not practible at industrial scale. Thus, composite media can be used to mimic this behavior, where an in-plane anisotropy media is deposited on top of a PMA. Nonetheless, this approach allows to reach faster switching rates. CoCrPt/Ni bilayers may be used for this purpose, with the CoCrPt serving as the PMA and the Ni as the IP anisotropy layer. The ferromagnetic resonance experiment (FMR) can be used to obtain information about the magnetic anisotropy, being able to characterize its constant for each layer in the bilayer system, together with the damping mechanisms. Therefore, the main goal of this master thesis is to introduce the FMR theory and experimentation and apply them in this system. The used films were already deposited by sputtering with 10 nm of Co.66Cr.24Pt.12 under a 5 to 40 nm Ni layer. Another set of samples with a Ti layer between the magnetic layers provides information of the interface coupling. The FMR experiments were partly performed in a broadband vector network analyzer (VNA) with applied magnetic fields IP or OOP, and in a X-band (9,54 GHz) cavity as function of the orientation of the applied magnetic field. It was qualitatively verified a decrease of the longitudinal magnetic anisotropy energy as a function of the Ni thickness in the bilayer system. However, the CoCrPt single layer absorption could not be observed, making it impossible to unequivocally identify each anistropy constant. Nonetheless, the short-range nature of the coupling was confirmed. Further experimentation in higher frequencies is needed in order to find the CoCrPt absorption. Also, promising effects in the damping mechanism due to the coupling are expected / Mestrado / Física / Mestre em Física / 2013/1186360 / CAPES