High-frequency susceptibility and ferromagnetic resonance in multidomain thin films of the yttrium-iron garnet type

The field dependence of the high-frequency susceptibility and the ferromagnetic resonance were experimentally studied in a thin (d≈0.1 µm) (111)-oriented single-crystal film of substituted yttrium-iron garnet with the factor q≪1. It was shown that the anomaly in the high-frequency susceptibility observed in a magnetic field H parallel to the normal to the film surface in the magnetization saturation region (H≈Hs) has a dual nature; more specifically, this anomaly is associated with an abrupt collapse of the stripe domain structure and a ferromagnetic resonance in the experimental configuration H ∥ [111] and h ⊥ H. In this case, the film transition from the inhomogeneous multidomain state to the homogeneous (single-domain) state at the point H≈Hs has no indications of a second-order phase transition. The experimental frequency-field dependence of ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) in the sample under study, having a characteristic minimum at the point ω0=5 MHz and HFMR=Hs, agrees qualitatively and quantitatively with calculations. The influence of the cubic magnetic anisotropy and the film thickness on the FMR spectrum and the orientation of the spontaneous magnetization in domains with respect to the film plane in the zero field H was theoretically studied.