Observation of spin-motive force in ferrimagnetic GdFeCo alloy films

Abstract

Non-uniform magnetic structures produce emergent electromagnetic phenomena such as the topological Hall effect and the spin-motive force (SMF). The experimental reports on the SMF, however, are very few, and the relationship between the SMF and material parameters is still unclear. In this study, we investigated the SMF in ferrimagnetic GdFeCo alloy films using the spin-torque-induced ferromagnetic resonance method and clarified the relationship. The amplitude of the detected SMF becomes larger than that of the transition metal alloy FeCo by Gd doping and reaches the maximum near a Gd composition of the boundary between in-plane and perpendicularly magnetized films. According to the analytical calculation, the enhancement is related to the trajectory of the magnetization precession. Moreover, we find that the SMF induced by the magnetic resonance is inversely proportional to the square of the damping constant.