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Magnetic damping and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in Pd-buffered [Co/Ni]5 and [Ni/Co]5 multilayers

Minghong Tang,a   Wei Li,b   Yang Ren,c   Zongzhi Zhang, ORCID logo *a   Shitao Loub  and  Q. Y. Jinab  

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a Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures, Ministry of Education, Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
E-mail: zzzhang@fudan.edu.cn

b State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

c School of Physics and Astronomy, Yunnan University, Kunming 650000, China

Abstract

We systematically studied the influence of Pd underlayer on the magnetic properties of perpendicular [Co/Ni]5 and [Ni/Co]5 multilayers by time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect. We found that the saturated magnetic damping constant α0 increases continuously with increasing the Pd thickness tPd, showing no linear correlation with the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy constant Ku for both series of samples. As compared to the Co/Ni sample with the same tPd, the Ni/Co film shows lower saturation magnetization, weaker Ku but larger α0, which can be ascribed to the presence of more paramagnetic spins at the Pd/Ni interface due to the weak exchange coupling stiffness between Ni atoms. By analyzing extrinsic damping contributions from magnetic inhomogeneities, two-magnon scattering and spin pumping effects, the intrinsic damping of perpendicular [Ni/Co]5 is quantitatively determined to be 0.023. This study should provide deep understanding and effective control of magnetic damping for designing high performance magnetic memory devices.

Graphical abstract: Magnetic damping and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in Pd-buffered [Co/Ni]5 and [Ni/Co]5 multilayers

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6RA26087J
Article type
Paper
Submitted
31 Oct 2016
Accepted
31 Dec 2016
First published
17 Jan 2017
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2017,7, 5315-5321

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Magnetic damping and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in Pd-buffered [Co/Ni]5 and [Ni/Co]5 multilayers

M. Tang, W. Li, Y. Ren, Z. Zhang, S. Lou and Q. Y. Jin, RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 5315 DOI: 10.1039/C6RA26087J

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