Title
Polycrystalline Co<inf>2</inf>Mn-based Heusler thin films with high spin polarization and low magnetic damping
Date Issued
21 October 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Guillemard C.
Petit-Watelot S.
Hohlfeld J.
Ghanbaja J.
Bataille A.
Le Fèvre P.
Bertran F.
Andrieu S.
Université de Lorraine
Publisher(s)
American Institute of Physics Inc.
Abstract
Spin-polarization and magnetic damping are measured for several polycrystalline films with each of them being made of a different single Co2Mn-based Heusler compound. As several epitaxial Co2Mn-based Heusler compounds are shown to be half-metal magnetic materials with full spin-polarization and ultralow magnetic damping, we explore here these properties but in polycrystalline films. Co2MnSi, Co2MnGe, and Co2MnGa thin films were grown on glass substrates and analyzed in situ by electron diffraction and spin-resolved photoemission and ex situ by transmission electron microscopy and ferromagnetic resonance. Despite the polycrystalline state of the films, they still exhibit high spin polarizations and very low magnetic damping coefficients. The latter are at least of the same order as the best epitaxial films using regular ferromagnetic materials. The key point to achieve such properties is to control the Heusler stoichiometry as best as possible.
Volume
115
Issue
17
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de la materia condensada
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85074089979
Source
Applied Physics Letters
Resource of which it is part
Applied Physics Letters
ISSN of the container
00036951
Source funding
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported partly by the French PIA project “Lorraine Universitéd’Excellence,” Reference No. ANR-15-IDEX-04-LUE, and by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France) under Contract No. ANR-17-CE24-0008 (CHIPMuNCS).
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