Spin-pumping effects in ferromagnetic thin film heterostructures measured through ferromagnetic resonance

Ferromagnetic (FM) thin-film heterostructures provide opportunities to investigate GHz magnetic dynamics and emerging magnetoelectric devices based on dynamic phenomena. An intriguing direction for these studies is the control of the flow of pure (chargeless) spin current flow in different magnetic systems. In this thesis, we focus on the excitation of pure spin currents using ferromagnetic resonance (FMR), also known as spin pumping, and their transport characteristics in magnetic heterostructures based on Ni₈₁Fe₁₉ (Permalloy, or Py) under a variety of circumstances. In Chapter 2, we present measurements of the anisotropy of the spin pumping effect in the Pt/Py/Pt system via variable-frequency, swept-field FMR. We find a very small anisotropy of enhanced Gilbert damping with sign opposite to a recent theory's prediction from the Rashba effect at the FM/Pt interface. In Chapter 3, we present an experimental and theoretical study of spin dynamics in the antiferromagnetically coupled Py/Ru/Py system. We show that, contrary to the behavior of the uniform mode in a saturated single-layer FM, the symmetric mode in unsaturated synthetic antiferromagnet (SAF) has approximately constant FM