Interfacial Structure Dependent Spin Mixing Conductance in Cobalt Thin Films

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Tokac M ^a   Bunyaev, S A ^b   Kakazei, G N ^b   Schmool, D S ^c   Atkinson, D ^a   Hindmarch, A T ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; COPPER; DAMPING; FILM PREPARATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); IRIDIUM; MIXING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

COBALT THIN FILMS; DAMPING ENHANCEMENT; GILBERT DAMPING; INTERFACE STRUCTURES; INTERFACIAL SPINS; INTERFACIAL STRUCTURES; INTRINSIC DAMPING; POLYCRYSTALLINE;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84938800545     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.056601     Document Type: Article

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