Effect of disorder studied with ferromagnetic resonance for arrays of tangentially magnetized sub-micron Permalloy discs fabricated by nanosphere lithography

TL;DR

This study investigates how disorder in arrays of sub-micron Permalloy discs affects ferromagnetic resonance properties, revealing that disorder increases linewidth but does not influence resonance frequency or angular dependence.

Contribution

It demonstrates that array disorder impacts linewidth in ferromagnetic resonance but not the resonance frequency or angular dependence, using nanosphere lithography for fabrication.

Findings

Linewidth increases with array disorder.

Resonance frequency is unaffected by disorder.

Angular dependence is negligible in well-ordered arrays.

Abstract

Tangentially magnetized trigonal arrays of sub-micron Permalloy discs are characterized with ferromagnetic resonance to determine the possible contributions to frequency and linewidth from array disorder. Each array is fabricated by a water-surface self-assembly lithographic technique, and consists of a large trigonal array of 700 nm diameter magnetic discs. Each array is characterized by a different degree of ordering. Two modes are present in the ferromagnetic resonance spectra: a large amplitude, `fundamental' mode and a lower amplitude mode at higher field. Angular dependence of the resonance field in a very well ordered array is found to be negligible for both modes. The relationship between resonance frequency and applied magnetic field is found to be uncorrelated with array disorder. Linewidth is found to increase with increasing array disorder.