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Transmission and processing of information at the nanoscale using spin waves and their quanta - magnons, offers numerous advantages and opportunities that make it a promising next-generation technology for integrated electronics. The main…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 K. O. Nikolaev , S. R. Lake , B. Das Mohapatra , G. Schmidt , S. O. Demokritov , V. E. Demidov

The use of spin waves in magnetic thin films at cryogenic temperatures has long been hindered by the lack of a suitable material platform. Yttrium iron garnet (YIG) is the leading candidate, yet it is typically grown on gadolinium gallium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 José Elias Abrão , Daan Weltens , Rhodri Mansell , Sebastiaan van Dijken , Lukáš Flajšman

We report unidirectional transmission of micron-wide spin waves beams in a 55 nm thin YIG. We downscaled a chiral coupling technique implementing Ni80Fe20 nanowires arrays with different widths and lattice spacing to study the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 L. Temdie , V. Castel , C. Dubs , G. Pradhan , J. Solano , H. Majjad , R. Bernard , Y. Henry , M. Bailleul , V. Vlaminck

We experimentally demonstrate tight focusing of a spin wave beam excited in extended nanometer-thick films of Yttrium Iron Garnet by a simple microscopic antenna functioning as a single-slit near-field lens. We show that the focal distance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 B. Divinskiy , N. Thiery , L. Vila , O. Klein , N. Beaulieu , J. Ben Youssef , S. O. Demokritov , V. E. Demidov

We present a computational framework for the design of magnonic transducers, where waveguide antennas generate and pick up spin-wave signals. Our method relies on the combination of circuit-level models with micromagnetic simulations and…

Spin-wave (SW) propagation close to the hybridization-induced transmission stop band is investigated within a trapezoid-shaped 200\,nm thick yttrium iron garnet (YIG) film using time-resolved magneto-optic Kerr effect (TR-MOKE) microscopy…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Franz Vilsmeier , Christian Riedel , Christian H. Back

We experimentally study nonlinear generation of the second harmonic by backward volume spin waves propagating in microscopic magnonic waveguides fabricated from a low-loss magnetic insulator with a thickness of several tens of nanometers.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 K. O. Nikolaev , S. R. Lake , B. Das Mohapatra , G. Schmidt , S. O. Demokritov , V. E. Demidov

Magnonics is gaining momentum as an emerging technology for information processing. The wave character and Joule heating-free propagation of spin-waves hold promises for highly efficient analog computing platforms, based on integrated…

Curvature-induced effects allow us to tailor the static and dynamic response of a magnetic system with a high degree of freedom. We study corrugated magnonic waveguides deposited on a sinusoidally modulated substrate prepared by focused…

Spin waves propagating in magnetic materials exhibit nonlinear behavior at large amplitudes due to the competition between excitation and relaxation, providing an attractive platform for exploring nonlinear wave dynamics. In particular,…

Magnonic nano-devices exploit magnons -- quanta of spin waves -- to transmit and process information within a single integrated platform that has the potential to outperform traditional semiconductor-based electronics for low power…

We investigate spin-wave propagation in a microstructured magnonic-crystal waveguide fabricated by localized ion implantation. The irradiation caused a periodic variation in the saturation magnetization along the waveguide. As a…

Methods for detecting spin waves rely on electrodynamical coupling between the spin wave dipolar field and an inductive probe. While this coupling is usually treated as constant, in this work, we experimentally and theoretically show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-11 Pablo Borys , Oleg Kolokoltsev , Ivan Gomez-Arista , Igor Zavislyak , Gennady Melkov , Naser Qureshi , Cesar Ordonez-Romero

We demonstrate a spin-wave-based time-multiplexed Ising Machine (SWIM), implemented using a 5 $\mu$m thick Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) film and off-the-shelf microwave components. The artificial Ising spins consist of 34--68 ns long 3.125 GHz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-12 Artem Litvinenko , Roman Khymyn , Victor H. González , Ahmad A. Awad , Vasyl Tyberkevych , Andrei Slavin , Johan Åkerman

We study the energy propagation in subwavelength waveguides and demonstrate that the mechanism of material gain, previously suggested for loss compensation, is also a powerful tool to manipulate dispersion and propagation characteristics of…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander A. Govyadinov , Viktor A. Podolskiy

We investigated the spin-wave propagation in a micro-structured yttrium iron garnet waveguide of $40$ nm thickness. Utilizing spatially-resolved Brillouin light scattering microscopy, an exponential decay of the spin-wave amplitude of…

We investigate the interplay between spin currents and spin waves in nanofabricated Permalloy waveguides with geometrical constrictions. Using propagating spin-wave spectroscopy, micromagnetic simulations, and analytical modeling, we…

Yttrium iron garnet (YIG) is a magnetic insulator with record-low damping, allowing spin-wave transport over macroscopic distances. Doping YIG with gallium ions greatly reduces the demagnetizing field and introduces a perpendicular magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-25 Joris J. Carmiggelt , Olaf C. Dreijer , Carsten Dubs , Oleksii Surzhenko , Toeno van der Sar

Nonreciprocal magnon propagation has recently become a highly potential approach of developing chip-embedded microwave isolators for advanced information processing. However, it is challenging to achieve large nonreciprocity in miniaturized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Yi Li , Tzu-Hsiang Lo , Jinho Lim , John E. Pearson , Ralu Divan , Wei Zhang , Ulrich Welp , Wai-Kwong Kwok , Axel Hoffmann , Valentine Novosad

We present a micromagnetic analysis of spin-wave propagation in a magnonic crystal realized as a permalloy spin-wave waveguide with a spatial periodical variation of its saturation magnetization. Frequency band gaps were clearly observed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Florin Ciubotaru , Andrii V. Chumak , Björn Obry , Alexander A. Serga , Burkard Hillebrands