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Research article

Interface coupling properties and reflection of bulk spin waves from biaxial multilayer ferromagnetic media

Sergey A Reshetnyak and Tat'yana A Homenko^*

National Technical University of Ukraine, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Kyiv, 03057, Peremohy av. 37, Ukraine

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

PMC Physics B 2008, 1:5doi:10.1186/1754-0429-1-5

Published:	14  February  2008

Abstract

The reflection coefficient of bulk spin waves from multilayer ferromagnetic structure with periodically modulated parameters of exchange interaction, uniaxial and rhombic magnetic anisotropy and saturation magnetization is calculated with a non-ideal coupling between layers. The strong dependence of spin-wave reflection coefficient on frequency, magnetic field and parameter of interfacial coupling is revealed. It allows changing the reflection intensity from 0 to 1 by changing either only external magnetic field value or frequency. The proposed model of boundary conditions gives the opportunity to take into account the quality of interfaces when studying the reflection processes of spin waves in multilayer structures.

PACS Codes: 75.30.Ds, 75.50.Dd, 75.70.Cn