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Exchange stiffness in the Co2FeSi Heusler compound

O. GaierSimon TrudelJaroslav HamrleBurkard HillebrandsH. SchneiderGerhard Jakob

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Acoustics and UltrasonicsCondensed matter physicsbusiness.industryChemistryIntermetallicengineering.materialCondensed Matter PhysicsHeusler compoundSpectral lineSurfaces Coatings and FilmsElectronic Optical and Magnetic MaterialsPulsed laser depositionMagnetic fieldBrillouin zoneCondensed Matter::Materials ScienceOpticsSpin waveengineeringCondensed Matter::Strongly Correlated ElectronsThin filmbusiness

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Using Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy, we determine the spin-wave exchange stiffness D and the exchange constant A for thin films of the full Heusler compound Co2FeSi prepared by pulsed laser deposition. The thermal spin-wave spectra were measured in various magnetic fields, for different transferred spin-wave momenta, and for different film thicknesses. Fitting the observed spin-wave frequencies, we find an extraordinarily large value of

https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/42/23/232001