A short-circuited coplanar waveguide for low-temperature single-port ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy setup to probe the magnetic properties of ferromagnetic thin films

Abstract

A coplanar waveguide shorted in one end is proposed, designed, and implemented successfully to measure the properties of magnetic thin films as a part of the vector network analyzer ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectroscopy setup. Its simple structure, potential applications, and easy installation inside the cryostat chamber made it advantageous especially for low-temperature measurements. It provides a wide band of frequencies in the gigahertz range essential for FMR measurements. Our spectroscopy setup with a short-circuited coplanar waveguide has been used to extract the Gilbert damping coefficient and effective magnetization values for standard ferromagnetic thin films, such as Permalloy (Py) and Cobalt (Co). The thickness and temperature-dependent studies of those magnetic parameters have also been done here for the afore-mentioned magnetic samples.