English
Related papers

Related papers: Irreversible magnetization switching using surface…

200 papers

This paper presents W-waveform Standing Surface Acoustic Waves (W-SSAW), and as its application, patterning of two groups of microparticles with different sizes alternately without fixing firstly patterned particles. W-SSAW is constructed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-11 Junseok Lee

The utilization of spin waves as eigenmodes of the magnetization dynamics for information processing and communication has been widely explored recently due to its high operational speed with low power consumption and possible applications…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-11 Mahdi Jamali , Jae Hyun Kwon , Soo-Man Seo , Kyung-Jin Lee , Hyunsoo Yang

A theoretical model of the coherent precession of magnetization excited by a picosecond acoustic pulse in a ferromagnetic semiconductor layer of (Ga,Mn)As is developed. The short strain pulse injected into the ferromagnetic layer modifies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 T. L. Linnik , A. V. Scherbakov , D. R. Yakovlev , X. Liu , J. K. Furdyna , M. Bayer

We use the exact solutions for magnetoacoustic waves in a two dimensional isothermal atmosphere with uniform inclined magnetic field to calculate the wave reflection, transmission, and conversion of slow and fast waves incident from above…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Shelley Hansen , Paul Cally , Alina Donea

We use a direct phase-resolved optical technique to study the coherence of spin waves (SWs) that are driven by surface acoustic waves (SAWs) via resonant magnetoelastic coupling. For this, we employ a piezoelectric lithium tantalate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Yannik Kunz , Florian Kraft , David Breitbach , Torben Pfeifer , Matthias Küß , Stephan Glamsch , Manfred Albrecht , Mathias Weiler

We study theoretically the geometrical and temporal commensurability oscillations induced in the resistivity of 2D electrons in a perpendicular magnetic field by surface acoustic waves (SAWs). We show that there is a positive anisotropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Malcolm P. Kennett , John P. Robinson , Nigel R. Cooper , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Waveguiding in general and acoustic waveguiding in particular are possible at the condition of having a transverse "discontinuity" or modulation of the refractive index. We propose here a radically different approach that relies on imposing…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Mohamed Farhat , Pai-Yen Chen , Ying Wu

We demonstrate the efficient excitation of spin waves in the ultra-low magnetic damping material yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) by surface acoustic waves (SAWs). To this end, we employ interdigital transducers fabricated on a piezoelectric zinc…

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) is utilized in diverse fields ranging from physics, engineering, to biology, for transducing, sensing and processing various signals. Optical measurement of SAW provides valuable information since the amplitude…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Kotaro Taga , Ryusuke Hisatomi , Yuichi Ohnuma , Ryo Sasaki , Teruo Ono , Yasunobu Nakamura , Koji Usami

We show that, under an appropriate out-of-plane static magnetic field, nuclear spins in a thin specimen on a surface acoustic wave (SAW) cavity can be resonantly excited and detected through spin-rotation coupling. Since such a SAW cavity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Koji Usami , Kazuyuki Takeda

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) become a popular driving source in modern condensed matter physics, but most existing theories simplify them as electric fields and ignore the non-uniform Brillouin zone folding effect. We develop a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Zi-Qian Zhou , Zhi-Fan Zhang , Cong Xiao , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

Optical control of magnetization has emerged as a promising approach to achieve ultrafast and energy-efficient magnetization reversal. Here, we investigate helicity-dependent switching of magnetization driven by the resonant excitation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 F. G. N. Fennema , C. S. Davies , A. Tsukamoto , A. Kirilyuk

We investigate magnetization reversal processes of magnetic nanorings. Using a recently developed efficient cartesian coordinates fast multipole method, magnetization switching phase diagrams are constructed for such structures. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Wen Zhang , Stephan Haas

Spin-orbit torques induced by spin Hall and interfacial effects in heavy metal/ferromagnetic bilayers allow for a switching geometry based on in-plane current injection. Using this geometry, we demonstrate deterministic magnetization…

Applications of magnetic memory devices greatly benefit from ultra-fast, low-power switching. Here we propose how this can be achieved efficiently in a nano-sized synthetic antiferromagnet by using perpendicular-to-the-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 B. C. Koop , T. Descamps , V. Korenivski

We investigate the thermally activated magnetization switching of small ferromagnetic particles driven by an external magnetic field. For low uniaxial anisotropy the spins can be expected to rotate coherently, while for sufficient large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Hinzke , U. Nowak

Light-matter interaction at the nanoscale in magnetic materials is a topic of intense research in view of potential applications in next-generation high-density magnetic recording. Laser-assisted switching provides a pathway for overcoming…

We investigate the modulation of optical phonons in semiconductor crystal by surface acoustic wave (SAW) propagating on the crystal surface. The SAW fields induce changes on the order of 10\textsuperscript{-3} in the average Raman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 F. Iikawa , A. Hernández-Mínguez , M. Ramsteiner , P. V. Santos

The control of antiferromagnets by magnetic fields represents a fundamental challenge in condensed matter physics, owing to their fully compensated magnetic order and vanishing net magnetization. Conventional methods rely on either…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Honglin Zhou , Muyu Wang , Yinina Ma , Xiaoyan Ma , Gang Li , Zihao Tao , Xiquan Zheng , Liqin Yan , Yingying Peng , Ding-Fu Shao , Bo Liu , Shiliang Li

The contactless Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) technique was implemented to probe the high-frequency (ac) conductivity in a high-mobility $p$-SiGe/Ge/SiGe structure in the integer quantum Hall (IQHE) regime. The structure was grown by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-12 I. L. Drichko , V. A. Malysh , I. Yu. Smirnov , A. V. Suslov , O. A. Mironov , M. Kummer , H. von Känel