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Impact of ferromagnetic layer thickness on the spin pumping in Co60Fe20B20/Ta bilayer thin films

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We report the tuneable spin angular momentum transfer (spin pumping) from Co60Fe20B20 (CFB) amorphous alloy into the Ta heavy metal nanolayers. All the films are grown on Si (100) substrate at room temperature using ion-beam sputtering technique. Structural studies reveal that the grown Ta films over amorphous CFB are crystalline even at ultrathin regime. The bilayers possess very low interface roughness (< 0.5 nm) and are continuous throughout the thickness range. Comparative analysis of the spin pumping in CFB (4, 6 and 8 nm) as a function of the Ta thickness (vary from 1 to 10 nm in step of 1 nm) has been performed employing ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectroscopy. It is observed that the effective damping increase exponentially with the increase of Ta, (i.e. follows ballistic spin transport) in two series of CFB (4 nm)/Ta (0–10 nm) and CFB(6 nm)/Ta (0–10 nm) bilayers, which is characteristic of normal spin pumping. However, the anomalous behaviour has been observed for CFB (8 nm)/Ta (0–10 nm) bilayer series where the spin current generated in Ta with the thicker CFB behaves oppositely. The results demonstrate the strong dependence of ferromagnet thickness on the spin pumping into the Ta nanolayers. This study paves the way to choose suitable ferromagnetic layer thickness for spin current-induced switching applications in spintronics.

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S. Hait acknowledges the Ministry of Education, Government of India, for the financial support. S. Husian acknowledges the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India for providing the INSPIRE Fellowship (IF140093). Carl Tryggers Stiftelse for Vetenskaplig Forskning (Grant No: CTS 17:450) is gratefully acknowledged for the support.

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  1. Thin Film Laboratory, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, 110016, India

    Soumyarup Hait, Nanhe Kumar Gupta, Vineet Barwal, Lalit Pandey & Sujeet Chaudhary

  2. Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Université Paris-Saclay, 91767, Palaiseau, France

    Sajid Husain

  3. Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg, 412 96, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Nilamani Behera

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Uppsala University, Box 35, 751 03, Uppsala, Sweden

    Ankit Kumar, Rahul Gupta & Peter Svedlindh

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Hait, S., Husain, S., Gupta, N.K. et al. Impact of ferromagnetic layer thickness on the spin pumping in Co60Fe20B20/Ta bilayer thin films. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 32, 12453–12465 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-021-05876-9

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