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Motivated by experimental work showing enhancement of spin transport between Yttrium Iron Garnet and Platinum by a thin antiferromagnetic insulator between them, we consider spin transport through the interface of a non-magnetic metal and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Mahsa Seyed Heydari , Wolfgang Belzig , Niklas Rohling

We report a systematic study of spin transport in antiferromagnetic (AF) insulators having a wide range of ordering temperatures. Spin current is dynamically injected from Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) into various AF insulators in Pt/insulator/YIG…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-16 Hailong Wang , Chunhui Du , P. Chris Hammel , Fengyuan Yang

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-25 Li-Shan Xie , Guang-Xi Jin , Lixin He , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Joseph Barker , Ke Xia

This paper presents the frequency dependence of the spin current emission in a hybrid ferrimagnetic insulator/normal metal system. The system is based on a ferrimagnetic insulating thin film of Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG, 200 nm) grown by…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Vincent Castel , Jamal Ben Youssef , Nynke Vlietstra , Bart van Wees

We study the magnon spin transport in the magnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG) in a nonlocal experiment and compare the magnon spin excitation and detection for the heavy metal paramagnetic electrodes platinum (Pt|YIG|Pt) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Jing Liu , Ludo J. Cornelissen , Juan Shan , Bart J. van Wees , Timo Kuschel

We develop a comprehensive description of static and dynamic spin-transfer torque at interfaces between a normal metal and a magnetic material. Specific examples of the latter include ferromagnets, collinear and noncollinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Hector Ochoa

The effective field torque of an yttrium-iron-garnet film on the spin accumulation in an attached Pt film is measured by the spin-Hall magnetoresistance (SMR). As a result, the magnetization direction of a ferromagnetic insulating layer can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-03 N. Vlietstra , J. Shan , V. Castel , J. Ben Youssef , G. E. W. Bauer , B. J. van Wees

We present a study of the transport properties of thermally generated spin currents in an insulating ferrimagnetic-antiferromagnetic-ferrimagnetic trilayer over a wide range of temperature. Spin currents generated by the spin Seebeck effect…

We report the frequency dependence of the spin current emission in a hybrid ferrimagnetic insulator/normal metal system as function of the insulating layer thickness. The system is based on a yttrium iron garnet (YIG) film [0.2, 1, and 3…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-08 V. Castel , N. Vlietstra , J. Ben Youssef , B. J. van Wees

We experimentally investigate spin-orbit torque and spin pumping in Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$(YIG)/Pt bilayers with ultrathin insertion layers at the interface. An insertion layer of Cu suppresses both spin-orbit torque and spin pumping, whereas…

Magnon transport through a magnetic insulator can be controlled by current-biased heavy-metal gates that modulate the magnon conductivity via the magnon density. Here, we report nonlinear modulation effects in 10$\,$nm thick yttrium iron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 J. Liu , X-Y. Wei , G. E. W. Bauer , J. Ben Youssef , B. J. van Wees

Yttrium iron garnet is a complex ferrimagnetic insulator with 20 magnon modes which is used extensively in fundamental experimental studies of magnetisation dynamics. As a transition metal oxide with moderate gap (2.8 eV), yttrium iron…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-01 Joseph Barker , Dimitar Pashov , Jerome Jackson

We investigated the effect of an external magnetic field on the diffusive spin transport by magnons in the magnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG), using a non-local magnon transport measurement geometry. We observed a decrease in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 L. J. Cornelissen , B. J. van Wees

Yttrium iron garnet (YIG) is a ferrimagnetic insulator valued for its high Curie temperature, very low magnetic damping, and ability to support long-range spin-wave transport. These qualities have established it as a cornerstone material in…

We study the role of thermal magnons in the spin and heat transport across a normal-metal/insulating-ferromagnet interface, which is beyond an elastic electronic spin transfer. Using an interfacial exchange Hamiltonian, which couples spins…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 Scott A. Bender , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Spin Seebeck effect refers to the magnonic thermal spin injection from a magnet into the adjacent heavy metal. A ferrimagnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG) is the material most studied for the spin Seebeck effect. Here, to account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Hayato Fukushima , Masanori Ichioka , Hiroto Adachi

Voltage modulation of yttrium iron garnet (YIG) with compactness, high speed response, energy efficiency and both practical/theoretical siginificances can be widely applied to various YIG based spintronics such as spin Hall, spin pumping,…

We study the temperature dependence of the spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) in yttrium iron garnet/platinum hybrid structures via magnetization orientation dependent magnetoresistance measurements. Our experiments show a decrease of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-10 Sibylle Meyer , Matthias Althammer , Stephan Geprägs , Matthias Opel , Rudolf Gross , Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein

We propose and demonstrate spin manipulation by magnetically controlled modulation of pure spin currents in cobalt/copper lateral spin valves, fabricated on top of the magnetic insulator Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ (YIG). The direction of the YIG…

Spin transport through magnetic insulators via magnons has recently been explored for a growing variety of magnetic systems with long-range order and well-understood spin excitation spectra. Here we show dramatic effects of spin transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Devin Wesenberg , Tao Liu , Davor Balzar , Mingzhong Wu , Barry L. Zink