Effect of granules anisotropy on "double quantum" magnetic resonance excitation in nanogranular composites
Abstract
Films of metal-insulator nanogranular composites (CoFeB)x(Al2O3)100-x with different contents of the metal ferromagnetic (FM) phase CoFeB (x ~ 15-50 at.%) are investigated by the method of electron spin resonance (ESR) in a wide range of frequencies (f = 7-80 GHz) and temperatures (T = 4.2-300 K). Besides the conventional FM resonance signal, the experimental spectra demonstrate an additional absorption peak with a double effective g-factor g ~ 4 which is explained within the quantum mechanical "giant spin" model by excitation of "double quantum" transitions in FM granules CoFeB. According to the theory, the intensity of this "double quantum" peak is a complex function of frequency and temperature, including as parameters the granule magnetic moment and anisotropy. Experimentally, the size and anisotropy of the granules can be varied either changing the nominal FM phase content x in the composites or annealing the samples at different temperatures. Here we study the effects of concentration x and thermal annealing of (CoFeB)x(Al2O3)100-x films on their ESR spectral parameters. The observed behavior of the "double quantum" peak intensity is well explained within the considered "giant spin" theoretical concept. In conclusion, we demonstrate the correlation between the size of FM granules in nanocomposites and their anisotropy, indicating the surface origin of this anisotropy.
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BibTeX
@misc{drovosekov2026effect,
title = {{Effect of granules anisotropy on "double quantum" magnetic resonance excitation in nanogranular composites}},
author = {A. B. Drovosekov and M. Yu. Dmitrieva and A. V. Sitnikov and S. N. Nikolaev and V. V. Rylkov},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = jul,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.00526},
eprint = {2607.00526},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00526},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Effect of granules anisotropy on "double quantum" magnetic resonance excitation in nanogranular composites
AU - A. B. Drovosekov
AU - M. Yu. Dmitrieva
AU - A. V. Sitnikov
AU - S. N. Nikolaev
AU - V. V. Rylkov
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/07/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.00526
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00526
AB - Films of metal-insulator nanogranular composites (CoFeB)x(Al2O3)100-x with different contents of the metal ferromagnetic (FM) phase CoFeB (x ~ 15-50 at.%) are investigated by the method of electron spin resonance (ESR) in a wide range of frequencies (f = 7-80 GHz) and temperatures (T = 4.2-300 K). Besides the conventional FM resonance signal, the experimental spectra demonstrate an additional absorption peak with a double effective g-factor g ~ 4 which is explained within the quantum mechanical "giant spin" model by excitation of "double quantum" transitions in FM granules CoFeB. According to the theory, the intensity of this "double quantum" peak is a complex function of frequency and temperature, including as parameters the granule magnetic moment and anisotropy. Experimentally, the size and anisotropy of the granules can be varied either changing the nominal FM phase content x in the composites or annealing the samples at different temperatures. Here we study the effects of concentration x and thermal annealing of (CoFeB)x(Al2O3)100-x films on their ESR spectral parameters. The observed behavior of the "double quantum" peak intensity is well explained within the considered "giant spin" theoretical concept. In conclusion, we demonstrate the correlation between the size of FM granules in nanocomposites and their anisotropy, indicating the surface origin of this anisotropy.
ER -