Investigation of Gilbert damping of a tetragonally distorted ultrathin Fe0.5Co0.5 epitaxial film with high magnetic anisotropy

R. Mandal; J. W. Jung; K. Masuda; Y. K. Takahashi; Y. Sakuraba; S. Kasai; Y. Miura; T. Ohkubo; K. Hono

doi:10.1063/1.5052721

Investigation of Gilbert damping of a tetragonally distorted ultrathin Fe_0.5Co_0.5 epitaxial film with high magnetic anisotropy

R. Mandal, J. W. Jung, K. Masuda, Y. K. Takahashi^*, Y. Sakuraba, S. Kasai, Y. Miura, T. Ohkubo, K. Hono

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We have investigated the Gilbert damping, α, of a tetragonally distorted, perpendicular magnetic anisotropic (PMA) ultrathin Fe_0.5Co_0.5 film grown on a Rh-buffered MgO(100) substrate fabricated by magnetron sputtering at room temperature by means of the time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect. We obtained the highest PMA value of 0.573 MJ/m³ ever reported for the Fe_0.5Co_0.5/Rh film. The PMA strongly depends on the lattice distortion which originates from the epitaxial growth in the large lattice misfit system of Fe_0.5Co_0.5 and Rh. We have estimated an unusually high value of α = 0.041 ± 0.002 for a 1 nm thick Fe_0.5Co_0.5 film. Based on the microstructural observation and the first-principles calculation, we conclude that the large α in the ultrathin Fe_0.5Co_0.5 film comes from the minority-spin electron transition around the Fermi level mediated by the spin-orbit interaction, which is caused by the large lattice distortion.

Original language	English
Article number	232406
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	113
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5052721
Publication status	Published - 2018 Dec 3
Externally published	Yes

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