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Resonant enhancement of spin Seebeck effect (SSE) due to phonons was recently discovered in Y3Fe5O12 (YIG). This effect is explained by hybridization between the magnon and phonon dispersions. However, this effect was observed at low…
We carried out a concerted effort to determine the absolute sign of the inverse spin Hall effect voltage generated by spin currents injected into a normal metal. We focus on yttrium iron garnet (YIG)|platinum bilayers at room temperature,…
The efficient transport of spin angular momentum is expected to play a crucial role in future spintronic devices, which potentially operate at frequencies reaching the terahertz range. Antiferromagnetic insulators exhibit significant…
We report the temperature dependence of the effective spin-mixing conductance between a normal metal (aluminium, Al) and a magnetic insulator ($\text{Y}_3\text{Fe}_5\text{O}_{12}$, YIG). Non-local spin valve devices, using Al as the spin…
Fabrication of a multistrip magnetic/nonmagnetic structure in a thin sandwiched Ni layer [Si(5 nm)/Ni(10 nm)/Si] by a focused ion beam (FIB) irradiation has been attempted. A control experiment was initially performed by irradiation with a…
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…
In bismuth ferrite thin films the cycloidal spiral spin structure is suppressed, and as a result the spin-wave magnon branches of long wavelength are reduced from a dozen to one, at \omega = 19.2 cm-1 (T=4K). This spin wave has not been…
We study the evolution of magnetoresistance with temperature in thin film bilayers consisting of platinum and the antiferromagnet Cr$_2$O$_3$ with its easy axis out of the plane. We vary the temperature from 20 - 60{\deg}C, close to the…
The spin-Seebeck effect (SSE) in platinum (Pt) and tantalum (Ta) on yttrium iron garnet (YIG) has been investigated by both externally heating the sample (using an on-chip Pt heater on top of the device) as well as by current-induced…
Experimental observations of vacuum radiation and vacuum frictional torque are challenging due to their vanishingly small effects in practical systems. For example, a rotating nanosphere in free space slows down due to friction from vacuum…
We present measurements of the magnetic moment and specific heat of single crystals of the spin-chain insulator, Pr3RuO7. The susceptibility indicates that three-dimensional antiferromagnetic order sets in at TN = 54 K, with spin…
We present measurements of thermal and electrical spin injection in nanoscale metallic non-local spin valve (NLSV) structures. Informed by measurements of the Seebeck coefficient and thermal conductivity of representative films made using a…
With exceptionally low magnetic damping, YIG has been extensively applied in the realm of magnetism, encompassing the researches into the spin Seebeck effect. YIG has 20 magnon bands, including 8 higher-energy bands denoted as…
We investigate ytterbium gallium garnet Yb$_{3}$Ga$_{5}$O$_{12}$ in the paramagnetic phase above the supposed magnetic transition at $T_{\lambda} \approx 54$ mK. Our study combines susceptibility and specific heat measurements with neutron…
The effect of thermal surface cleaning on the Gilbert damping, $\alpha$, of yttrium iron garnet (YIG), before capping with a metallic layer, has been investigated. Our results show that $\alpha$ is strongly effected by relatively mild…
The idea of embedding and transmitting information within the fluctuations of the magnetic moments of spins (spin waves) has been recently proposed and experimentally tested. The coherence of spin waves, which describes how well defined…
We report strong interfacial exchange coupling in Bi2Se3/yttrium iron garnet (YIG) bilayers manifested as large in-plane interfacial magnetic anisotropy (IMA) and enhancement of damping probed by ferromagnetic resonance (FMR). The IMA and…
The magnon propagation length ($\langle\xi\rangle$) of a ferro/ferrimagnet (FM) is one of the key factors that controls the generation and propagation of thermally-driven spin current in FM/heavy metal (HM) bilayer based spincaloritronic…
We report electric detection of the spin Peltier effect (SPE) in a bilayer consisting of a Pt film and a Y$_{3}$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ (YIG) single crystal at the cryogenic temperature $T$ as low as 2 K based on a RuO$_2$$-$AlO$_x$ on-chip…
We utilize nanoscale spin valves with Pt spacer layers to characterize spin scattering in Pt. Analysis of the spin lifetime determined from our measurements indicates that the extrinsic Elliot-Yafet spin scattering is dominant at room…