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The linear and nonlinear interactions between spin waves (magnons) and acoustic waves (phonons) in magnetostrictive materials provide an exciting opportunity for realizing novel microwave signal processing devices and spintronic circuits.…
The magnonic band gaps of the two types of planar one-dimensional magnonic crystals comprised of the periodic array of the metallic stripes on yttrium iron garnet (YIG) film and YIG film with an array of grooves was analyzed experimentally…
The magnetic insulator Yttrium Iron Garnet can be grown with exceptional quality, has a ferrimagnetic transition temperature of nearly 600 K, and is used in microwave and spintronic devices that can operate at room temperature. The most…
Nano resonators in which mechanical vibrations and spin waves can be coupled are an intriguing concept that can be used in quantum information processing to transfer information between different states of excitation. Until now, the…
We observe amplification of spin-wave packets propagating along a film of yttrium iron garnet (YIG) subject to a transverse temperature gradient. The amplification is attributed to a spin-transfer thermal torque created by spin currents…
The field of magnonics attracts significant attention due to the possibility of utilizing information coded into the spin-wave phase or amplitude to perform computation operations on the nanoscale. Recently, spin waves were investigated in…
We present a near-field diffraction model for spin waves in perpendicularly magnetized films applicable in any geometries of excitation fields. This model relies on Kalinikos-Slavin formalism to express the dynamic susceptibility tensor in…
Spin waves are promising information carriers for analog and wave-based computing, requiring compact and precisely engineered scattering landscapes. Focused ion beam (FIB) irradiation enables such control by locally modifying the spin-wave…
We study experimentally the propagation of nanosecond spin-wave pulses in microscopic waveguides made of nanometer-thick yttrium iron garnet films. For these studies, we use micro-focus Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy, which…
We combine the theoretical method of calculating spin wave excitation with the finite-temperature modeling and calculate the magnon-phonon relaxation time in the technologically important material Yttrium iron garnet (YIG) from first…
Yttrium Iron Garnet is the ubiquitous magnetic insulator used for studying pure spin currents. The exchange constants reported in the literature vary considerably between different experiments and fitting procedures. Here we calculate them…
We apply Mie scattering theory to study the interaction of magnetic spheres with microwaves in cavities beyond the magnetostatic and rotating wave approximations. We demonstrate that both strong and ultra-strong coupling can be realized for…
One-dimensional magnonic crystals have been implemented as gratings of shallow grooves chemically etched into the surface of yttrium-iron garnet films. Scattering of backward volume magnetostatic spin waves from such structures is…
Spin-wave active ring resonators (SWARRs) based on yttrium iron garnet (YIG) films exhibit rich nonlinear dynamics that make them promising platforms for physical reservoir computing. We present systematic and experimentally simple methods…
Magnetically full or partially compensated insulating ferrimagnets with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) offer valuable insights into fundamental spin-wave physics and high-speed magnonic applications. This study reports on key…
Measurements of the exchange stiffness $D$ and the exchange constant $A$ of Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) films are presented. The YIG films with thicknesses from 0.9 $\mu$m to 2.6 $\mu$m were investigated with a microwave setup in a wide…
High-quality magnets such as yttrium iron garnet (YIG) are electrically insulating and very complex. By implementing a quantum thermostat into atomistic spin dynamics we compute YIG's key thermodynamic properties, viz. the magnon power…
We demonstrate an all-optical method for manipulating the magnetization in a 1-mm YIG (yttrium-iron-garnet) sphere placed in a $\sim0.17\,$T uniform magnetic field. An harmonic of the frequency comb delivered by a multi-GHz infrared laser…
Magnetoelastic coupling mediated by magnetic dipolar interactions is theoretically investigated in ferromagnetic thin films under an in-plane magnetic field. We develop a theoretical description that incorporates dipolar fields derived from…
Spin waves can probe the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) which gives rise to topological spin textures, such as skyrmions. However, the DMI has not yet been reported in yttrium iron garnet (YIG) with arguably the lowest damping for…