Abstract

Abstract We report on broadband and in-plane angle dependent ferromagnetic resonance measurements of MnN (30 nm)/CoFeB ( t CoFeB ) exchange bias bilayer systems with CoFeB thicknesses ranging from 5 to 20 nm. We find that the strong unidirectional anisotropy in this system is accompanied by a strong uniaxial in-plane anisotropy and a small interfacial perpendicular anisotropy ( K ⊥ , i = 0.043 ± 0.001 erg / cm 2 ). The strength of the interfacial exchange bias coupling in this system Δ σ eb = 0.193 ± 0.005 erg / cm 2 is only 2.5 times larger than the interfacial uniaxial coupling strength Δ σ u = 0.076 ± 0.003 erg / cm 2 . The relaxation in this system also shows a strong unidirectional and uniaxial in-plane anisotropy. While the observed thickness dependence of the uniaxial anisotropy of the relaxation is consistent with an interfacial two-magnon scattering contribution, we find that this is not the case for the unidirectional relaxation.

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