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We theoretically demonstrate linear spin-wave nonreciprocity in a Ni80Fe20 nanostripe waveguide, based on interband magnonic transitions induced by a time-reversal and spatialinversion symmetry breaking magnetic field. An analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kai Di , Hock Siah Lim , Vanessa Li Zhang , Ser Choon Ng , Meng Hau Kuok

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

We investigate the transfer and control of nonreciprocity through magnons themselves in permalloy thin films deposited on surface oxide silicon substrate. Evidences of nonreciprocal emergence of hybridized dipole exchange magnons (spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Wenjie Song , Xiansi Wang , Chenglong Jia , Xiangrong Wang , Changjun Jiang , Desheng Xue , Guozhi Chai

We report on the dependence of curvilinear shaped coplanar waveguides on the near-field diffraction patterns of spin waves propagating in perpendicularly magnetized thin films. Implementing the propagating spin waves spectroscopy techniques…

Motivated by recent experiments on thin films of the ferromagnetic insulator yttrium-iron garnet (YIG), we have developed an efficient microscopic approach to calculate the spin-wave spectra of these systems. We model the experimentally…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-01 Andreas Kreisel , Francesca Sauli , Lorenz Bartosch , Peter Kopietz

We present a near-field diffraction model for spin waves in perpendicularly magnetized films applicable in any geometries of excitation fields. This model relies on Kalinikos-Slavin formalism to express the dynamic susceptibility tensor in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-22 V. Vlaminck , L. Temdie , V. Castel , M. B. Jungfleisch , D. Stoeffler , Y. Henry , M. Bailleul

By means of the plane wave method we study spin wave dynamics in two-dimensional bi-component magnonic crystals based on a squeezed hexagonal lattice and consist of a permalloy thin film with cobalt inclusions. We explore the dependence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 S. Mamica , M. Krawczyk , D. Grundler

Scattering of backward volume magnetostatic spin waves from a one-dimensional magnonic crystal, realized by a grating of shallow grooves etched into the surface of an yttrium-iron garnet film, was experimentally studied. Rejection frequency…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-05 A. V. Chumak , M. P. Kostylev , A. A. Serga , B. Hillebrands

Spin waves are investigated in Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) waveguides with a thickness of 39 nm and widths ranging down to 50 nm, i.e., with aspect ratios thickness over width approaching unity, using Brillouin Light Scattering spectroscopy.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Q. Wang , B. Heinz , R. Verba , M. Kewenig , P. Pirro , M. Schneider , T. Meyer , B. Lägel , C. Dubs , T. Brächer , A. V. Chumak

Recent studies on spin-wave propagation in ferromagnetic waveguides has highlighted the role of nonreciprocity resulting from the chiral nature of dipolar interactions in curved elements. However, the impact of spin-wave mode type on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Uladzislau Makartsou , Mateusz Gołębiewski , Attila Kákay , Olena Tartakivska , Maciej Krawczyk

We study experimentally the propagation of nanosecond spin-wave pulses in microscopic waveguides made of nanometer-thick yttrium iron garnet films. For these studies, we use micro-focus Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy, which…

We present a generic theoretical framework to describe non-reciprocal microwave circulation in a multimode cavity magnonic system and assess the optimal performance of practical circulator devices. We show that high isolation (> 56 dB),…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Na Zhu , Xu Han , Chang-Ling Zou , Mingrui Xu , Hong X. Tang

We experimentally investigate frequency-selective spin wave (SW) transmission in a micrometre-scale, ring-shaped magnonic resonator integrated with a linear Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) stripe. Using super-Nyquist-sampling magneto-optical Kerr…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Franz Vilsmeier , Takuya Taniguchi , Michael Lindner , Christian Riedel , Christian Back

We present an analytical framework capable of describing spin-waves dynamic in magnetic hetero-structures composed of a pair of exchange-decoupled magnetic layers separated by a nonmagnetic spacer, focusing in particular on garnet-based…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 A. Del Giacco , L. Menna , M. J. Gross , O. Wojewoda , V. Levati , M. Urbanek , S. Kurdi , E. Albisetti , D. Petti , C. A. Ross

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 wave nonreciprocity in domain walls (DWs) allows for unidirectional signal processing in reconfigurable magnonic circuits. Using scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM), we examined coherently-excited magnons propagating in…

We experimentally study nonlinear propagation of spin waves in microscopic yttrium iron garnet waveguides, where the dispersion spectrum is engineered to enable efficient four-magnon interactions over a wide range of wavelengths. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 K. O. Nikolaev , B. Das Mohapatra , G. Schmidt , S. O. Demokritov , V. E. Demidov

Thin, metallic magnetic films can support nonreciprocal spin waves due to the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (iDMI). However, these films typically have high damping, making spin wave propagation distances short (less than…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-11 Cameron A McEleney , Karen L Livesey , Robert E Camley , Rair Macêdo

Generation of second-harmonic waves is one of the universal nonlinear phenomena that have found numerous technical applications in many modern technologies, in particular, in photonics. This phenomenon also has great potential in the field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 K. O. Nikolaev , S. R. Lake , G. Schmidt , S. O. Demokritov , V. E. Demidov

Magnonics is a promising platform for integrated radio frequency (rf) devices, leveraging its inherent non-reciprocity and reconfigurability. However, the efficiency of spin-wave transducers driven by rf-currents remains a major challenge.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Felix Kohl , Björn Heinz , Ádám Papp , Róbert Erdélyi , Györgi Csaba , Philipp Pirro