Abstract
We investigated the anisotropy and intrinsic exchange interaction within MnAs films using ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) and spin wave resonance (SWR), respectively. Apart from the dominating in-plane easy axis a presence of an independent contribution (independent FMR mode) characterized by an out-of-plane easy axis is found in agreement with our previous magnetometric studies. The temperature sweep of the resonance spectra shows a jump both for the resonance field and the resonance linewidth at a temperature of 10°C, i.e., at the transition from the hexagonal (ferromagnetic) α-phase to the region of the coexisting α- and orthorhombic (paramagnetic) β-phase. In the coexistence region the main easy axis lies in-plane and perpendicular to the stripe direction being the direction of the c axis. In the SWR measurements with magnetic field applied close to the normal of the film a set of lines resulting from the excitation of spin waves is observed. The extracted exchange constant is as small as A = 17.7 ×10 - 1 0 erg/cm. Moreover, the temperature dependence of the spin wave stiffness constant D = 2A/M has been determined within the coexistence region.
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