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American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 6(91), p. 062507

DOI: 10.1063/1.2768000

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Spin-Torque Ferromagnetic Resonance Measurements of Damping in Nanomagnets

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Abstract

We measure the magnetic damping parameter a in thin film CoFeB and permalloy (Py) nanomagnets at room temperature using ferromagnetic resonance driven by microwave frequency spin-transfer torque. We obtain $α_{CoFeB} = 0.014 ± 0.003$ and $α_{Py}=0.010 ± 0.002$, values comparable to measurements for extended thin films, but significantly less than the effective damping determined previously for similar nanomagnets by fits to time-domain studies of large-angle magnetic excitations and magnetic reversal. The greater damping found for the large amplitude nanomagnet dynamics is attributed to the nonlinear excitation of non-uniform magnetic modes. Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures