We present the generation and detection of spin currents by using magnetoelastic resonance excitation in a magnetoelectric composite high overtone bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator (HBAR) formed by a Al-ZnO-Al-GGG-YIG-Pt structure. Transversal BAW drives magnetization oscillations in YIG film at a given resonant magnetic field, and the resonant magneto-elastic coupling establishes the spin-current generation at the Pt/YIG interface. Due to the inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) this BAW-driven spin current is converted to a dc voltage in the Pt layer. The dependence of the measured voltage both on magnetic field and frequency has a resonant character. The voltage is determined by the acoustic power in HBAR and changes its sign upon magnetic field reversal. We compare the experimentally observed amplitudes of the ISHE electrical field achieved by our method and other approaches to spin current generation that use surface acoustic waves and microwave resonators for ferromagnetic resonance excitation, with the theoretically expected values.

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High overtone acoustic resonator with yttrium iron garnet/zinc oxide layered structure was theoretically considered, fabricated, and experimentally investigated. The theory of the resonator, containing an arbitrary number of magnetic and nonmagnetic dielectric/ferroelectric layers, placed in a transverse magnetic field is presented. The simulation shows the possibility to tune the resonant frequency in the range of ±1 MHz by magnetic field. This tuning is due to the resonance magnetoelastic interaction in the saturated ferrite film and the total phase shift of acoustic wave in the structure. The experiment proves the magnetic field influence on resonance frequencies and attenuation of transverse wave with polarization vector quasicollinear with the field direction. The tuning about 0.25 MHz near the acoustic resonant frequency 2 GHz was obtained in the field 260 Oe. This frequency is close to the ferromagnetic resonance frequency in ferrite film, corresponding to the field applied.

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