Electrical detection of ferromagnetic resonance in single layers of permalloy: Evidence of magnonic charge pumping

Abstract

The generation of a DC voltage in single layers of permalloy (${\mathrm{Ni}}_{81}{\mathrm{Fe}}_{19}$) when the magnetization is undergoing ferromagnetic resonance is investigated in a series of samples with thickness varying from 4.0 to 150 nm. By sweeping the external field at a fixed microwave frequency, we measure a DC voltage at the ends of the layer as a function of the in-plane angle for each sample. The asymmetric voltage signal generated at the resonance field is a superposition of symmetric Lorentzian and antisymmetric Lorentzian derivative line shapes. The in-plane dependence of both symmetric and antisymmetric signals cannot be explained as due to spin rectification (SRE) only. The results are well explained by a model that takes into account in addition to the SRE the contribution of the recent discovered effect of magnonic charge pumping that converts magnetization dynamics into charge current by means of the spin orbit coupling.