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Spin pumping is a microwave-driven means for injecting spins from a ferromagnet into the adjacent target material. The insertion of a thin antiferromagnetic layer between the ferromagnet and the target material is known to enhance the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Yuto Furutani , Hayato Fukushima , Yutaka Yamamoto , Masanori Ichioka , Hiroto Adachi

We theoretically and numerically demonstrate an actively tunable slow light in a hybrid metal-graphene metamaterial in the terahertz (THz) regime. In the unit cell, the near field coupling between the metallic elements including the bright…

We present a novel design for a single-mode, truly sub-wavelength THz disk laser based on a nano-composite gain medium comprising an array of metal/ferromagnetic point contacts embedded in a thin dielectric layer. Stimulated emission of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 R. I. Shekhter , A. M. Kadigrobov , M. Jonson , E. I. Smotrova , A. I. Nosich , V. Korenivski

We measure electrically detected ferromagnetic resonance in microdevices patterned from ultra-thin Co/Pt bilayers. Spin pumping and rectification voltages are observed and distinguished via their angular dependence. The spin-pumping voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-22 T. D. Skinner , H. Kurebayashi , D. Fang , D. Heiss , A. C. Irvine , A. T. Hindmarch , M. Wang , A. W. Rushforth , A. J. Ferguson

THz polarization control upon generation is a crucially missing functionality. THz spintronic emitters based on the inverse spin Hall effect allow for this by the strict implicit orthogonality between their magnetization state and the…

Recent interest in developing fast spintronic devices and laser-controllable magnetic solids has sparked tremendous experimental and theoretical efforts to understand and manipulate ultrafast dynamics in materials. Studies of spin dynamics…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-21 Xinwei Li , Dasom Kim , Yincheng Liu , Junichiro Kono

We show theoretically that conversion between spin and charge by spin-orbit interaction in metals occurs even in a non-local setup where magnetization and spin-orbit interaction are spatially separated if electron diffusion is taken into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Junji Fujimoto , Gen Tatara

We show here theoretically and experimentally that a Rashba-split electron state inside a ferromagnet can efficiently convert a dynamical spin accumulation into an electrical voltage. The effect is understood to stem from the Rashba…

The ability to controllably manipulate the laser-induced ultrafast magnetic dynamics is a prerequisite for future high speed spintronic devices. The optimization of devices requires the controllability of the ultrafast demagnetization time,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Wei Zhang , Wei He , Xiang-Qun Zhang , Zhao-Hua Cheng , Jiao Teng , Manfred Fähnle

We present a method to measure the effective field contribution to spin-transfer-induced interactions between the magnetic layers in a trilayer nanostructure, which enables spin-current effects to be distinguished from the usual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 M. A. Zimmler , B. Özyilmaz , W. Chen , A. D. Kent , J. Z. Sun , M. J. Rooks , R. H. Koch

When graphene is placed on a monolayer of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) its band structure develops rich spin textures due to proximity spin-orbital effects with interfacial breaking of inversion symmetry. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Manuel Offidani , Mirco Milletarí , Roberto Raimondi , Aires Ferreira

The rapid development of 6G communications using terahertz (THz) electromagnetic waves has created a demand for highly sensitive THz nanoresonators capable of detecting these waves. Among the potential candidates, THz nanogap loop arrays…

Spin-orbit-related effects offer a highly promising route for reading and writing information in magnetic units of future devices. These phenomena rely not only on the static magnetization orientation but also on its dynamics to achieve…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-19 Filipe S. M. Guimarães , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Juba Bouaziz , Antonio T. Costa , Roberto B. Muniz , Samir Lounis

We present a methodology to address, from first principles, charge-spin interconversion in two-dimensional materials with spin-orbit coupling. Our study relies on an implementation of density functional theory based quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Maedeh Rassekh , Hernán Santos , Andrea Latge , Leonor Chico , Saber Farjami Shayesteh , Juan Jose Palacios

The efficient modulation and control of ultrafast signals on-chip is of central importance in terahertz (THz) communications and a promising route toward sub-diffraction limit THz spectroscopy. Two-dimensional (2D) materials may provide a…

Properties are discussed of a ferromagnetic junction of the type "rod contacting with film". Very high current density of the order of $10^9$ A/cm$^2$ may be achieved in the contact region. We show it can lead to inversion of population of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-11 S. G. Chigarev , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

Terahertz (THz) radiation is a powerful tool with widespread applications ranging from imaging, sensing, and broadband communications to spectroscopy and nonlinear control of materials. Future progress in THz technology depends on the…

The helicity of 3D topological insulator surface states has drawn significant attention in spintronics owing to spin-momentum locking where the carriers' spin is oriented perpendicular to their momentum. This property can provide an…

Graphene is an ideal material for spin transport as very long spin relaxation times and lengths can be achieved even at room temperature. However, electrical spin injection is challenging due to the conductivity mismatch problem. Spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 D. I. Indolese , S. Zihlmann , P. Makk , C. Jünger , K. Thodkar , C. Schönenberger

Herein, we study the spin-wave dispersion and dissipation in a ferromagnetic insulator--normal metal--ferromagnetic insulator system. Long-range dynamic coupling because of spin pumping and spin transfer lead to collective magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-25 Hans Skarsvag , Andre Kapelrud , Arne Brataas