  Spin current injection from sputtered yttrium iron garnet (YIG) films into an
adjacent platinum layer has been investigated by means of the spin pumping and
the spin Seebeck effects. Films with a thickness of 83 and 96 nanometers were
fabricated by on-axis magnetron rf sputtering at room temperature and
subsequent post-annealing. From the frequency dependence of the ferromagnetic
resonance linewidth, the damping constant has been estimated to be
$(7.0\pm1.0)\times 10^{-4}$. Magnitudes of the spin current generated by the
spin pumping and the spin Seebeck effect are of the same order as values for
YIG films prepared by liquid phase epitaxy. The efficient spin current
injection can be ascribed to a good YIG|Pt interface, which is confirmed by the
large spin-mixing conductance $(2.0\pm0.2)\times 10^{18}$ m$^{-2}$.
