Electronic transparency of internal interfaces in metallic nanostructures comprising light, heavy and ferromagnetic metals measured by terahertz spectroscopy

We investigate the electronic transport at the internal interface within a selection of metallic bilayer nanostructures using the contact-free, all-optical method of THz time-domain spectroscopy. The Ru/Co, Ru/Pt, and Ru/Al bilayer nanostructures and their individual constituent metals are studied, with Ru representing an archetypal d-band metal, Co an archetypal ferromagnet, and Pt and Al archetypal heavy and light metals, respectively. The THz conductivity data were analyzed in terms of Drude and Bloch-Gruneisen models, and the interface current coefficient of the internal nanointerface was determined. Strong temperature dependency of the interface current coefficient in the Ru/Co nanostructure is revealed.