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基于IrMn/Fe/Pt交换偏置结构的无场自旋太赫兹源

朱照照 冯正 蔡建旺

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基于IrMn/Fe/Pt交换偏置结构的无场自旋太赫兹源

朱照照, 冯正, 蔡建旺

Field-free spintronic terahertz emitters based on IrMn/Fe/Pt exchage bias heterostructures

Zhu Zhao-Zhao, Feng Zheng, Cai Jian-Wang
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  • 与目前商用的太赫兹源相比, 自旋太赫兹源具有超宽频谱、固态稳定以及成本低廉等优点, 这使其成为下一代太赫兹源的主要研究焦点.但使用自旋太赫兹源时, 通常需要外加磁场使铁磁层的磁化强度饱和, 才能产生太赫兹波, 这制约了其应用前景.基于此, 本文制备了一种基于IrMn/Fe/Pt交换偏置结构的自旋太赫兹波发生器, 通过IrMn/Fe中的交换偏置场和Fe/Pt中的超快自旋流注入与逆自旋霍尔效应相结合, 在无外加磁场下产生了强度可观的太赫兹波. 在IrMn和Fe的界面中插入超薄的Cu, 可以使Fe在厚度很薄时零场下实现饱和磁化, 并且其正向饱和场最高可达–10 mT, 从而进一步提升无场下的太赫兹发射效率. 零场下出射的太赫兹波的动态范围超过60 dB, 达到可实用化的水平.通过旋转样品, 发现产生的太赫兹波的偏振方向也会随之旋转, 并且始终沿着面内垂直于交换偏置场的方向. 此外, 在此交换偏置结构的基础上, 引入了一层自由的铁磁金属层Fe, 设计了一种以IrMn/Fe/Pt/Fe为核心结构的自旋阀太赫兹源, 发现产生的太赫兹强度在两层铁磁层反平行排列时比平行排列以及不引入自由铁磁金属层时均大约提升了40%. 结果表明, 基于IrMn/Fe/Pt结构的自旋太赫兹信号源可在无外场下产生可观的太赫兹信号, 并且其强度可通过引入自由铁磁金属层进一步增强, 偏振方向也可通过旋转样品进行调控, 这些优点使其有望在下一代太赫兹信号发生器中发挥重要的作用.
    Spintronic terahertz (THz) emitter has more advantages such as lower cost, broader spectrum and easier operation than the commercial THz emitters, and thus has become a focus of research towards the next-generation THz source. However, in such a spintronic THz emitter, an external magnetic field is technologically required to align the orientation of the magnetization, which is detrimental for practical applications. Here, a spintronic terahertz emitter based on IrMn/Fe/Pt exchange bias structure is presented. By means of ultrafast spin injection on Fe/Pt interface followed by the spin-to-charge conversion in Pt, plus the effective magnetic field originating from the IrMn/Fe interface, the THz pulse with considerable intensity can be generated in such a structure without the assistance of external field. Besides, the remanent magnetization for thin Fe layer is enhanced by inserting an ultrathin Cu layer between the IrMn surface and the Fe surface, which is beneficial to the field-free THz emission. The range of obtained dynamic THz spectrum exceeds 60 dB and the positive saturation field can reach up to ~ –10 mT by optimizing the multilayer thickness, meeting the standard for commercial application. By rotating the sample, it is found that the polarization direction of the generated THz wave circulates simultaneously and keeps perpendicular to the direction of exchange bias field in the film plane. Moreover, we design a spin valve THz emitter based on the structure of IrMn/Fe/Pt/Fe by adding a free ferromagnetic Fe layer into the exchange bias multilayers. The emitted THz pulse amplitude is larger for the antiparallel alignment of the Fe layers at zero field than for the parallel alignment or exchange bias structure. The present work shows that the spin terahertz emitter based on IrMn/Fe/Pt exchange bias structure can produce the considerable terahertz signals without external field. Furthermore, the polarization direction of the emitted THz signal can be easily manipulated by rotating the sample. Because of this series of advantages, such exchange bias heterostructures are expected to play an important role in designing the next-generation THz source.
      通信作者: 冯正, fengzheng_mtrc@caep.cn
    • 基金项目: 科学挑战专题 (批准号: TZ2018003)和国家自然科学基金(批准号: 62027870)资助的课题
      Corresponding author: Feng Zheng, fengzheng_mtrc@caep.cn
    • Funds: Project supported by the Science Challenge Project of China (Grant No. TZ2018003) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 62027870).
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  • 图 1  (a) 样品结构以及太赫兹信号激发示意图; (b) MgO(111)/Pt(1.5 nm)/IrMn(6 nm)/Fe(1.5 nm)/Pt(1.8 nm) (黑线)和MgO(111)/Pt(1.5 nm)/IrMn(6 nm)/Cu(0.4 nm)/Fe(1.5 nm)/Pt(1.8 nm) (红线)在外场沿交换偏置方向时的磁化曲线

    Fig. 1.  (a) Illustration of the layer stacking and THz excitation configuration; (b) M-H loops for the MgO(111)/Pt(1.5 nm)/IrMn(6 nm)/Fe(1.5 nm)/Pt(1.8 nm) (black line) and MgO(111)/Pt(1.5 nm)/IrMn(6 nm)/Cu(0.4 nm)/Fe(1.5 nm)/Pt(1.8 nm) (red line) on the applied in-plane magnetic field parallel to the exchange bias direction.

    图 2  MgO(111)/Pt(1.5 nm)/IrMn(6 nm)/Cu(0.4 nm)/Fe(2 nm)/Pt(1.8 nm)无外场下的太赫兹脉冲信号 (a); 太赫兹脉冲振幅随外场的变化关系(b); 由图(a)得到的傅里叶谱图(c)

    Fig. 2.  THz emission signals of MgO(111)/Pt(1.5 nm)/IrMn(6 nm)/Cu(0.4 nm)/Fe(2 nm)/Pt(1.8 nm) samples without external field(a); magnetic dependence of the THz amplitude (b); Fourier spectra obtained from the data in Fig.(a) (c).

    图 3  (a) tFe = 1, 1.5, 2和2.5 nm时, MgO(111)/Pt(1.5 nm)/IrMn(6 nm)/Cu(0.4 nm)/Fe(tFe nm)/Pt(1.8 nm) 样品太赫兹脉冲振幅随着外场的变化曲线; (b) tFe = 1.5 nm时, 不同Cu和Pt厚度下其太赫兹脉冲振幅随外场的变化曲线; (c) MgO(111)/Pt(1.5 nm)/IrMn(6 nm)/Cu(0.4 nm)/Fe(2.5 nm)/Pt(1.8 nm) 与MgO(111)/Fe(1.5 nm)/Pt(1.8 nm) 的太赫兹脉冲信号对比

    Fig. 3.  (a) THz amplitude as a function magnetic field for the MgO(111)/Pt(1.5 nm)/IrMn(6 nm)/Cu(0.4 nm)/Fe(tFe nm)/Pt(1.8 nm) samples, where tFe = 1, 1.5, 2, and 2.5 nm; (b) comparison of the magnetic dependent THz amplitude in 1.5 nm Fe with different thickness of Cu and Pt; (c) effect of 6 nm IrMn layer on THz signals.

    图 4  MgO(111)/Pt(1.5 nm)/IrMn(6 nm)/Cu(0.4 nm)/Fe(2 nm)/Pt(1.8 nm)在$\varphi$ = 0°(a)和$\varphi$ = 90°(b)时偏振方向分别沿xy方向的太赫兹脉冲信号; (c)太赫兹脉冲偏振方向沿xy方向的分量随$\varphi$ 的变化关系, 实线代表用cos函数进行拟合的结果. (d)不同 $\varphi$ 下, 太赫兹脉冲的矢量分布示意图

    Fig. 4.  THz emission signals with x-directional andy-directional polarization for the MgO(111)/Pt(1.5 nm)/IrMn(6 nm)/Cu(0.4 nm)/Fe(2 nm)/Pt(1.8 nm) sample at $ \phi $ = 0° (a) and $\varphi$ = 90° (b), respectively; (c) x-directional andy-directional polarization THz pulse amplitude as a function of $\varphi$. Solid lines in (c) are fitting curves using a cosine function; (d) distribution of THz emission signals vector at different $\varphi$.

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    Tonouchi M 2007 Nat. Photonics 1 97Google Scholar

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    Neu J, Schmuttenmaer C A 2018 J. Appl. Phys. 124 231101Google Scholar

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    Kampfrath T, Battiato M, Maldonado P, Eilers G, Notzold J, Mahrlein S, Zbarsky V, Freimuth F, Mokrousov Y, Blugel S, Wolf M, Radu I, Oppeneer P M, Munzenberg M 2013 Nat. Nanotechnol. 8 256Google Scholar

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    Seifert T, Jaiswal S, Martens U, Hannegan J, Braun L, Maldonado P, Freimuth F, Kronenberg A, Henrizi J, Radu I, Beaurepaire E, Mokrousov Y, Oppeneer P M, Jourdan M, Jakob G, Turchinovich D, Hayden L M, Wolf M, Münzenberg M, Kläui M, Kampfrath T 2016 Nat. Photonics 10 483Google Scholar

    [5]

    Feng Z, Yu R, Zhou Y, Lu H, Tan W, Deng H, Liu Q, Zhai Z, Zhu L, Cai J, Miao B, Ding H 2018 Adv. Optical Mater. 6 1800965Google Scholar

    [6]

    Herapath R I, Hornett S M, Seifert T S, Jakob G, Klaui M, Bertolotti J, Kampfrath T, Hendry E 2019 Appl. Phys. Lett. 114 041107Google Scholar

    [7]

    Wu Y, Elyasi M, Qiu X P, Chen M J, Liu Y, Ke L, Yang H 2017 Adv. Mater. 29 1603031Google Scholar

    [8]

    Yang D W, Liang J H, Zhou C, Sun L, Zheng R, Luo S N, Wu Y Z, Qi J B 2016 Adv. Optical Mater. 4 1944Google Scholar

    [9]

    Sasaki Y, Kota Y, Iihama S, Suzuki K Z, Sakuma A, Mizukami S 2019 Phys. Rev. B 100 140406(R)

    [10]

    Schneider R, Fix M, Heming R, de Vasconcellos S M, Albrecht M, Bratschitsch R 2018 Acs Photonics 5 3936Google Scholar

    [11]

    Nandi U, Abdelaziz M S, Jaiswal S, Jakob G, Gueckstock O, Rouzegar S M, Seifert T S, Klaui M, Kampfrath T, Preu S 2019 Appl. Phys. Lett. 115 022405Google Scholar

    [12]

    Torosyan G, Keller S, Scheuer L, Beigang R, Papaioannou E T 2018 Sci. Rep. 8 1311Google Scholar

    [13]

    Li J G, Jin Z M, Song B J, Zhang S N, Guo C Y, Wan C H, Han X F, Cheng Z X, Zhang C, Lin X, Ma G H, Yao J Q 2019 Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 58 090913Google Scholar

    [14]

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    [16]

    Liu T, Zhu T, Cai J W, Sun L 2011 J. Appl. Phys. 109 094504Google Scholar

    [17]

    Zhang H, Feng Z, Zhang J, Bai H, Yang H, Cai J, Zhao W, Tan W, Hu F, Shen B, Sun J 2020 Phys. Rev. B 102 024435Google Scholar

    [18]

    Zou L K, Zhang Y, Gu L, Cai J W, Sun L 2016 Phys. Rev. B 93 075309Google Scholar

    [19]

    Fix M, Schneider R, de Vasconcellos S M, Bratschitsch R, Albrecht M 2020 Appl. Phys. Lett. 117 132407Google Scholar

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