The recently predicted mechanism of orbital pumping can enable the
generation of pure orbital current from a precessing ferromagnet (FM) without the need
for electrical current injection. This orbital current can be efficiently injected into an
adjacent nonmagnetic material (NM) without being hampered by electrical conductivity
mismatch. However, experimentally identifying this novel effect presents significant
challenges due to the substantial background contributions from spin pumping and spin
rectification effects (SREs). In this work, we disentangle the effects of orbital pumping
from spin pumping in bilayer structures composed of Nb/Ni and Nb/Fe60Co20B20 by
observing a sign reversal of the measured voltage. This reversal arises from the
competing signs of the spin and orbital Hall effects in the Nb. We establish methods to
differentiate the pumping signal from SREs by analyzing the distinct angular dependence
of the measured voltage and its spatial dependence relative to the radio frequency
excitation source.
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