Ferromagnetic resonance modes of a synthetic antiferromagnet at low magnetic fields

Abstract

One key advantage of antiferromagnets over ferromagnets is the high magnetic resonance frequencies that enable ultrafast magnetization switching and oscillations. Among a variety of antiferromagnets, the synthetic antiferromagnet (SAF) is a promising candidate for high-speed spintronic devices design. In this paper, micromagnetic simulations are employed to study the resonance modes in an SAF structure consisting of two identical CoFeB ferromagnetic (FM) layers that are antiferromagnetically coupled via interlayer exchange coupling. When the external bias magnetic field is small enough to ensure the magnetizations of two FM sublayers remain antiparallel alignments, we find that there exist two resonance modes with different precession chirality, namely y-component synchronized mode and z-component synchronized mode, respectively. These two resonance modes show different features from the conventional in-phase acoustic mode and out-of-phase optic mode. The simulation results are in good agreement with our theoretical analyses.