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The generation of spin currents is a key challenge in the field of spintronics. We propose using surface acoustic waves (SAWs) to generate spin currents in altermagnetic thin films, thereby realizing an acoustic spin splitter. Altermagnets,…

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We study surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in yttrium iron garnet (YIG)/zinc oxide (ZnO) heterostructures, comparing the results of a computationally lightweight analytical model with time-resolved micro-focused Brillouin light scattering data.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Finlay Ryburn , Kevin Künstle , Yangzhan Zhang , Yannik Kunz , Timmy Reimann , Morris Lindner , Carsten Dubs , John F. Gregg , Mathias Weiler

The interaction between surface acoustic waves and magnetization offers an efficient route for electrically controlling magnetic states. Here, we demonstrate the excitation of magnetoacoustic waves in galfenol, a highly magnetostrictive…

We present a computational study of the parametric excitation of spin waves in thin film disks with a mode-resolved approach. The method involves projecting out the time-dependent magnetization, computed using micromagnetics simulations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Maryam Massouras , Salvatore Perna , Massimiliano d'Aquino , Claudio Serpico , Joo-Von Kim

In this work, we study experimentally by broadband ferromagnetic resonance measurements, the dependence of the spin-wave excitation spectra on the magnetic applied field in CoFeB meander-shaped films. Two different orientations of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 A. V. Sadovnikov , G. Talmelli , G. Gubbiotti , E. N. Beginin , S. Sheshukova , S. A. Nikitov , C. Adelmann , F. Ciubotaru

We predict high-velocity magnetic domain wall (DW) motion driven by out-of-plane acoustic spin in surface acoustic waves (SAWs). We demonstrate that the SAW propagating at a 30-degree angle relative to the x-axis of a 128-degree Y-LiNbO3…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-16 Jiacheng Lu , Fa Chen , Yiming Shu , Yukang Wen , Hang Zou , Yuhao Liu , Shiheng Liang , Wei Luo , Yue Zhang

The magnetization dynamics induced by standing elastic waves excited in a thin ferromagnetic film is described with the aid of micromagnetic simulations taking into account the magnetoelastic coupling between spins and lattice strains. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-10 A. V. Azovtsev , N. A. Pertsev

Surface Acoustic Waves (SAW) have been used in spintronic applications to decrease the magnetic field or the electric current required to act on the magnetization. A common belief is that a SAW alone cannot achieve a directed magnetic…

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

In a thin film of superconducting YBCO the impact of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) traveling on the piezoelectric substrate is investigated. A pronounced interaction between the ultrasonic waves and the vortex system in the type II…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Jachmann , C. Hucho

The characteristics of spin waves in ferromagnetic waveguides with nonuniform magnetization have been investigated for situations where the shape anisotropy field of the waveguide is comparable to the external bias field. Spin-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Frederic Vanderveken , Hasnain Ahmad , Marc Heyns , Bart Sorée , Christoph Adelmann , Florin Ciubotaru

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices form an important class of acoustofluidic devices, in which the acoustic waves are generated and propagate along the surface of a piezoelectric substrate. Despite their wide-spread use, only a few fully…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Nils R. Skov , Prateek Sehgal , Brian J. Kirby , Henrik Bruus

Strengthening magnetoacoustic coupling is crucial to the improvement of the surface acoustic wave (SAW)-driven spintronics devices. A key challenge in enhancing magnetoacoustic coupling is minimizing the phonon and magnon dissipation of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Shuting Cui , Fa Chen , Liyang Liao , Jiacheng Lu , Rui Xiong , Xiaofei Yang , Yoshichika Otani , Yue Zhang , Wei Luo

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 generate in-plane magnetoelastic waves in nickel films using the all-optical transient grating technique. When performed on amorphous glass substrates, two dominant magnetoelastic excitations can be resonantly driven by the underlying…

Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) resonances were imaged within a closed domain in the ferroelectric LiTaO$_3$ via scanning Microwave Impedance Microscopy (MIM). The MIM probe is used for both SAW generation and measurement, allowing contact-less…

We use surface acoustic waves of 1 and 3 GHz in hybrid piezoelectric-magnetic systems with either cobalt or nickel as a magnetic layer to generate magnetoacoustic waves and directly image them using stroboscopic X-ray magnetic circular…

Surface Acoustic Waves (SAW) have been utilized to investigate the properties of a two-dimensional electron system, subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field and monochromatic microwave radiation, in the regime where the so-called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Benedikt Friess , Ivan A. Dmitriev , Vladimir Umansky , Loren Pfeiffer , Ken West , Klaus von Klitzing , Jurgen H. Smet

A Love wave device was designed to generate surface acoustic waves (SAWs) with strong shear-horizontal polarization, interacting with a polycrystalline Fe72Ga28 magnetostrictive layer. The shear strain induced by these waves at a frequency…

We report the possibility of achieving an order of magnitude reduction in the energy dissipation needed to write bits in perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (p-MTJs) by simulating the magnetization dynamics under a combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Austin Roe , Dhritiman Bhattacharya , Jayasimha Atulasimha