FMR doublet in two-layer iron garnet films (abstract)

Abstract

Multilayer epitaxial iron garnet films have been investigated very intensively in the recent past. The dipole and exchange couplings of spins lying in different layers results in the existence of new types of oscillations in these structures and give rise to the characteristic resonance properties of them. Resonance microwave absorption in two-layer iron garnet films, of which one layer is in a saturated state and the other is in a demagnetized state, is investigated. The films were prepared by the epitaxial method on a gallium-gadolinium substrate with (111) orientation. The first layer on the substrate was the doped iron yttrium garnet with the easy plane magnetization. The second easy axis layer was the bubble domain layer. The resonant field of the first layer FMR line versus the external in-plane magnetic field was investigated. It was determined that the FMR line is doubled when the external field is applied along the [112]-type axes. The lines of the FMR doublet merge into a single line and the resonance intensity is doubled if the magnetic field is oriented in the [110] directions. It was established that the FMR line splitting is conditioned by the layer exchange interaction, the cubic anisotropy, and the domain dissipative field. The magnetic and anisotropy of the resonance fields agrees with the model of an isolated layer magnetized by the domains of the neighboring layer.