High power ferromagnetic resonance and spin wave instability processes in Permalloy thin films

The high power ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) response, as well as butterfly curves of the spin wave instability threshold microwave field amplitude hcrit versus in-plane static field H profiles, have been measured for Permalloy films with thicknesses of 104, 128, and 270nm at a nominal pumping frequency of 9.37GHz. The hcrit values range from about 1 to 7Oe. Both the resonance saturation response at the FMR field and the subsidiary absorption (SA) response for static fields below the FMR field are similar in appearance to those for bulk ferrites. Butterfly curves over the SA response region, while similar to those for ferrites, exhibit a film thickness dependent band edge cutoff effect not found in bulk ferrites. The SA butterfly curve data were analyzed on the basis of a spin wave instability theory adapted to thin films. The observed shift in the SA band edge cutoff with thickness agrees with calculations based on the thin film dispersion response and the assumption of first order instability processes ...

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