Single shot all-optical switching of the magnetization by femtosecond laser pulses in rare-earth transition-metal ferrimagnetic materials is particularly promising for future ultrafast magnetic storage applications.Mo...Single shot all-optical switching of the magnetization by femtosecond laser pulses in rare-earth transition-metal ferrimagnetic materials is particularly promising for future ultrafast magnetic storage applications.Moreover,ultrafast lasergenerated spin currents appear to play an important role in the switching process.Here,we try to separately detect the spin current from Gd in a Co/Gd bilayer system using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy.To this aim,we use different capping,buffer and embedded layers in order to tune the spin-to-charge and spin-current propagation and identify currents from each of the layers.We attribute the observed THz emission in all layers to the transition metal demagnetization induced spin currents,and detect no contribution from the Gd demagnetization.We attribute this absence of Gd-induced THz signal to the potentially slow demagnetization of Gd,which shift the emission spectra to lower frequencies,below our detection capabilities.These results highlight the limitations in using materials suffering from the so-called critical slowdown for the optimization of spintronic THz emitters.展开更多
在353K的乙酰胺-尿素-N aB r熔体中,P t、Cu电极上,Co(Ⅱ)+2e→Co(0)是一步完全不可逆反应,测得0.060m o l.L-1CoC l2-乙酰胺-尿素-N aB r中,Co(Ⅱ)在P t上,传递系数α=0.28,扩散系数D0=4.68×10-5cm2.-s 1,Cu上α=0.28,D0=4.06...在353K的乙酰胺-尿素-N aB r熔体中,P t、Cu电极上,Co(Ⅱ)+2e→Co(0)是一步完全不可逆反应,测得0.060m o l.L-1CoC l2-乙酰胺-尿素-N aB r中,Co(Ⅱ)在P t上,传递系数α=0.28,扩散系数D0=4.68×10-5cm2.-s 1,Cu上α=0.28,D0=4.06×1-0 7cm2.-s 1。G d(Ⅲ)不能单独还原为G d(0),但可以被Co(Ⅱ)诱导共沉积。由恒电位电解法得到非晶态的G d-Co合金,G d的含量随阴极电位的负移,G d(Ⅲ)/N i(Ⅱ)摩尔比增大以及电解时间延长而增大。展开更多
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2023YFF0719200)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62105011)+3 种基金the French National Research Agency ANR through the UFO project(Grant No.ANR-20-CE090013)the SLAM project(Grant No.ANR-23-CE30-0047)the MAT-PULSE-Lorraine Universitéd’Excellence project(Grant No.ANR-15-IDEX-04-LUE)the France 2030 Government Grants PEPR Electronic EMCOM(Grant No.ANR-22-PEEL-0009)。
文摘Single shot all-optical switching of the magnetization by femtosecond laser pulses in rare-earth transition-metal ferrimagnetic materials is particularly promising for future ultrafast magnetic storage applications.Moreover,ultrafast lasergenerated spin currents appear to play an important role in the switching process.Here,we try to separately detect the spin current from Gd in a Co/Gd bilayer system using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy.To this aim,we use different capping,buffer and embedded layers in order to tune the spin-to-charge and spin-current propagation and identify currents from each of the layers.We attribute the observed THz emission in all layers to the transition metal demagnetization induced spin currents,and detect no contribution from the Gd demagnetization.We attribute this absence of Gd-induced THz signal to the potentially slow demagnetization of Gd,which shift the emission spectra to lower frequencies,below our detection capabilities.These results highlight the limitations in using materials suffering from the so-called critical slowdown for the optimization of spintronic THz emitters.
