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The interlayer exchange coupling confers specific properties to Synthetic Antiferromagnets that make them suitable for several applications of spintronics. The efficient use of this magnetic configuration requires an in-depth understanding…
We report investigation of ferromagnetic resonance phenomenon in ferromagnetic thin films with essentially non-uniform composition. Epitaxial Pd-Fe thin film with linear distribution of Fe content across the thickness is used as the model…
The symmetric (Heisenberg) exchange interaction is fundamental to magnetism and assumes critical importance in designing magnetic materials for novel emergent phenomena and device applications. However, quantifying exchange is extremely…
The exchange stiffness is a central material parameter of all ferromagnetic materials. Its value controls the Curie temperature as well as the dynamic properties of spin waves to a large extend. Using ultrashort spin current pulses we…
The exchange interaction in ferromagnetic ultra-thin films is a critical parameter in magnetization-based storage and logic devices, yet the accurate measurement of it remains a challenge. While a variety of approaches are currently used to…
Perpendicularly magnetized CoFeB layers with ultra-thin non-magnetic insertion layers are very widely used as the electrodes in magnetic tunnel junctions for spin transfer magnetic random access memory devices. Exchange interactions play a…
Spin waves in ferrimagnetic yttrium iron garnet (YIG) films with ultralow magnetic damping are relevant for magnon-based spintronics and low-power wave-like computing. The excitation frequency of spin waves in YIG is rather low in weak…
Control of the spin wave dynamics in nanomagnetic elements is very important for the realization of a broad range of novel magnonic devices. Here we study experimentally the spin wave resonance in thick ferromagnetic rings (100 nm) using…
We present an experimental and theoretical study of the magnetic field dependence of the mode frequency of thermally excited spin waves in rectangular shaped nanopillars of lateral sizes 60x100, 75x150, and 105x190 nm2, patterned from…
We investigated the nonreciprocal spin-wave properties, including the frequency shift, of a helical equilibrium state in a versatile CoFeB/NiFe bilayer. Through an extension of the dynamic matrix formalism (developed in this work) to an…
We investigated an out-of-plane exchange bias system that is based on the antiferromagnet MnN. Polycrystalline, highly textured film stacks of Ta / MnN / CoFeB / MgO / Ta were grown on SiO$_x$ by (reactive) magnetron sputtering and studied…
Using an atomistic spin model, we have simulated spin wave injection and propagation into antiferromagnetic IrMn from an exchange coupled CoFe layer. The spectral characteristics of the exited spin waves have a complex beating behavior…
Temperature dependent transport measurements on ultrathin antiferromagnetic Mn films reveal a heretofore unknown non-universal weak localization correction to the conductivity which extends to disorder strengths greater than 100 k$\Omega$…
A study of the multilayer system MgO/CoFeB(1.1nm)/Ta($t$)/CoFeB(0.8nm)/MgO is presented, where the two CoFeB layers are separated by a Ta interlayer of varying thickness $t$. The magnetization properties deduced from complementary…
Standing spin waves in a thin film are used as sensitive probes of interface pinning induced by an antiferromagnet through exchange anisotropy. Using coplanar waveguide ferromagnetic resonance, pinning of the lowest energy spin wave…
We theoretically investigate spin-wave dispersion in rare-earth magnet compounds by using first-principles calculations and a method we call the reciprocal-space algorithm (RSA). The value of the calculated exchange stiffness for…
In this study we investigate the exchange coupling between the hard magnetic compound MnBi and the soft magnetic alloy FeCo including the interface structure between the two phases. Exchange spring MnBi-Fe$_x$Co$_{1-x}$ (x = 0.65 and 0.35)…
The dispersion of spin waves in vertical meander-shaped CoFeB thin films consisting of segments located at 90{\deg} angles with respect to each other is investigated by Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy. We reveal the periodic…
Efficient coupling between magnons and phonons requires material platforms that contain magnetic multilayers with versatile high-frequency properties grown on piezoelectric substrates with large electromechanical coupling coefficients. One…
We study the effect of one-side metallization of a uniform ferromagnetic thin film on its spin-wave dispersion relation in the Damon-Eshbach geometry. Due to the finite conductivity of the metallic cover layer on the ferromagnetic film the…