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Optically induced spin currents have proven to be useful in spintronics applications, allowing for sub-ps all-optical control of magnetization. However, the mechanism responsible for their generation is still heavily debated. Here we use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Tom Lichtenberg , Maarten Beens , Menno H. Jansen , Rembert A. Duine , Bert Koopmans

Spin currents can be generated on an ultrafast timescale by excitation of a ferromagnetic (FM) thin film with a femtosecond laser-pulse. Recently, it has been demonstrated that these ultrafast spin currents can transport angular momentum to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Mark L. M. Lalieu , Paul L. J. Helgers , Bert Koopmans

We report a THz emitter with excellent performances based on nonmagnetic (NM) and ferromagnetic (FM) heterostructures. The spin currents are first excited by the femtosecond laser beam in the NM/FM bilayer, and then transient charge…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-25 Yang Wu , Mehrdad Elyasi , Xuepeng Qiu , Mengji Chen , Yang Liu , Lin Ke , Hyunsoo Yang

Nonreciprocity of spin waves is essential for components such as magnetic isolators and circulators used in spin-wave-based computing. A ferromagnetic (FM) bilayer exhibits significant frequency nonreciprocity and has attracted attention in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-08 Shion Yoshimura , Shugo Yoshii , Ryo Ohshima , Masashi Shiraishi

Ferromagnetic resonance in conducting magnetic bilayers was studied using microstrip transducers. It was found that excitation or suppression of standing spin waves could be achieved through enhanced inhomogeneity of eddy currents in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-01 M. Kostylev , K. J. Kennewell , R. Magaraggia , R. L. Stamps , M. Ali , B. J. Hickey

In magnetically ordered solids a static magnetic field can be generated by virtue of the transverse magneto-optical Kerr effect (TMOKE). Moreover, the latter was shown to be dramatically enhanced due to the optical excitation of surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-14 Stanislav Kolodny , Dmitry Yudin , Ivan Iorsh

We investigate the dipolar-exchange spin wave spectrum in thin ferromagnetic bilayers with inplane magnetization, incorporating interlayer exchange coupling and intra- and interlayer dipolar interactions. In the continuum approximation we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Rob den Teuling , Ritesh Das , Artem V. Bondarenko , Elena V. Tartakovskaya , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Yaroslav M. Blanter

Several rare-earth transition-metal ferrimagnetic systems exhibit all-optical magnetization switching upon excitation with a femtosecond laser pulse. Although this phenomenon is very promising for future opto-magnetic data storage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Tom Lichtenberg , Youri L. W. van Hees , Maarten Beens , Caspar J. Levels , Reinoud Lavrijsen , Rembert A. Duine , Bert Koopmans

Femtosecond laser-induced photoexcitation of ferromagnet (FM)/heavy metal (HM) heterostructures have attracted attention by emitting broadband terahertz frequencies. The phenomenon relies on the formation of ultrafast spin current, which is…

The excitation of high-frequency short-wavelength spin waves is a challenge limiting the application of these propagating magnetization disturbances in information processing systems. We propose a method of local excitation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Pawel Gruszecki , Igor L. Lyubchanskii , Konstantin Y. Guslienko , Maciej Krawczyk

We investigated the microwave-assisted DC voltages of ferromagnetic resonances and exchangedominated standing spin wave excitations in two different in-plane magnetized permalloy thin films via homodyne detection. The line shapes of…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-24 Ziqian Wang , Xiaofeng Zhu , Xiaoshuang Chen , Wei Lu

Terahertz radiation pulses can be generated efficiently through femtosecond laser excitation of a ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic heterostructure, wherein an ultrafast laser-induced spin current results in an electromagnetic THz pulse due to…

We report broadband spectroscopy and numerical analysis by which we explore propagating spin waves in a magnetic bilayer consisting of a 23 nm thick permalloy film deposited on 130 nm thick $Y_{3}Fe_{5}O_{12}$. In the bilayer, we observe a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Kyongmo An , Vinayak Bhat , Michal Mruczkiewicz , Carsten Dubs , Dirk Grundler

Electrical generation of THz spin waves is theoretically explored in an antiferromangetic nanostrip via the current-induced spin-orbit torque. The analysis based on micromagnetic simulations clearly illustrates that the Neel-vector…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-14 Xinyi Xu , Yuriy G. Semenov , Ki Wook Kim

Non-linear magnetization dynamics is essential for the operation of many spintronics devices. For microwave assisted switching of magnetic elements the low field regime is of particular interest. In addition a large number of experiments…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Hans G. Bauer , Peter Majchrak , Torsten Kachel , Christian H. Back , Georg Woltersdorf

We present new mechanism for manipulation of the spin-wave amplitude through the use of the dynamic charge-mediated magnetoelectric effect in ultrathin multilayers composed of dielectric thin-film capacitors separated by a ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Piotr Graczyk , Maciej Krawczyk

Excitation of antiferromagnetic spin waves in HoFeO$_{3}$ crystal combined with a split ring resonator (SRR) is studied using terahertz (THz) electromagnetic pulses. The magnetic field in the vicinity of the SRR induced by the incident THz…

Optics · Physics 2014-04-09 Y. Mukai , H. Hirori , T. Yamamoto , H. Kageyama , K. Tanaka

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-10 Sarah Jenkins , Roy W. Chantrell , Richard F. L. Evans

Nonreciprocal spin-wave propagation in bilayer ferromagnetic systems has attracted significant attention due to its potential to precisely quantify material parameters as well as for applications in magnonic logic and information…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 C. Heins , V. Iurchuk , O. Gladii , L. Körber , A. Kákay , J. Fassbender , K. Schultheiss , H. Schultheiss

Recently, helicity-dependent photocurrent was reported in Bi single thin fi lms. It is proposed that the origin of this photocurrent is the combination of photo-spin conversion and spin-charge conversion effects in Bi and efficient spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-17 Kazuaki Ishibashi , Satoshi Iihama , Shigemi Mizukami
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