Spin‐Charge Conversion in Fe/Au/Sb₂Te₃ Heterostructures as Probed By Spin Pumping Ferromagnetic Resonance

Abstract

Abstract Large‐area antimony telluride (Sb 2 Te 3 ) thin films are grown by a metal organic chemical vapor deposition technique on 4” Si(111) substrates, and their topological character probed by magnetoconductance measurements. When interfaced with Fe thin films, broadband ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy (BFMR) shows a clear increase of the damping parameter in Fe/Sb 2 Te 3 when compared to a reference Fe layer, which may suggest the occurrence of spin pumping (SP) into Sb 2 Te 3 . Simultaneously, X‐ray reflectivity and conversion electron Mossbauer spectroscopy evidence the development of a chemically and magnetically pure Fe/Sb 2 Te 3 interface. However, by conducting SP‐FMR, it is shown that no spin‐to‐charge conversion (S2C) occurs in Fe/Sb 2 Te 3 , while a clear SP signal develops by introducing a 5 nm Au interlayer between Fe and Sb 2 Te 3 , with a measured inverse Edelstein effect conversion efficiency of λ IEE = 0.27 nm. The results shed some light on the correlation among the chemical‐structural‐magnetic properties of the Fe/Sb 2 Te 3 interface, the broadening of the magnetic damping parameter as detected by BFMR, and the occurrence of S2C, as probed by SP‐FMR.