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The van der Waals magnet CrSiTe3 (CST) has captured immense interest because it is capable of retaining the long-range ferromagnetic order even in its monolayer form, thus offering potential use in spintronic devices. Bulk CST crystal has…

We report on terahertz (THz) radiation under electrical pumping from a degenerate semiconductor possessing an electron accumulation layer. In InN, the random grating formed by topographical defects provides high-efficiency coupling of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 T. V. Shubina , N. A. Gippius , V. A. Shalygin , A. V. Andrianov , S. V. Ivanov

THz generation from femtosecond photoexcited spintronic heterostructures has recently become a versatile tool for investigating ultrafast spin-transport and transient charge-current in a non-contact and non-invasive manner. The same from…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Sandeep Kumar , Sunil Kumar

We systematically study the pump-wavelength dependence of terahertz pulse generation in thin-film spintronic THz emitters composed of a ferromagnetic Fe layer between adjacent nonmagnetic W and Pt layers. We find that the efficiency of THz…

Terahertz (THz) Spintronic emitters based on ferromagnetic/metal junctions have become an important technology for the THz range, offering powerful and ultra-large spectral bandwidths. These developments have driven recent investigations of…

Spintronic heterostructures are considered to be the new generation THz sources for their capability in producing high power and broadband THz radiation. Here, we provide a brief review on the state-of-the-art in this field. The optically…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Sandeep Kumar , Anand Nivedan , Arvind Singh , Sunil Kumar

An ultra-broadband THz emitter covering a wide range of frequencies from 0.1 to 10 THz is highly desired for spectroscopy applications. So far, spintronic THz emitters have been proven as one class of efficient THz sources with a broadband…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 Mengji Chen , Yang Wu , Yang Liu , Kyusup Lee , Xuepeng Qiu , Pan He , Jiawei Yu , Hyunsoo Yang

We study THz-driven spin dynamics in thin CoPt films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Femtosecond magneto-optical Kerr effect measurements show that demagnetization amplitude of about $1\%$ can be achieved with a peak THz electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Debanjan Polley , Matteo Pancaldi , Matthias Hudl , Paolo Vavassori , Sergei Urazhdin , Stefano Bonetti

Terahertz emission spectroscopy (TES) has recently played an important role in unveiling the spin dynamics at a terahertz (THz) frequency range. So far, ferromagnetic (FM)/nonmagnetic (NM) heterostructures have been intensively studied as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Mengji Chen , Rahul Mishra , Yang Wu , Kyusup Lee , Hyunsoo Yang

We describe the dynamics of an antiferromagnetic nano-oscillator in an external magnetic field of any given time distribution. The oscillator is powered by a spin current originating from spin-orbit effects in a neighboring heavy metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Jakub Chęciński , Marek Frankowski , Tomasz Stobiecki

We use single-cycle THz fields and the femtosecond magneto-optical Kerr effect to respectively excite and probe the magnetization dynamics in two thin-film ferromagnets with different lattice structure: crystalline Fe and amorphous CoFeB.…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-24 S. Bonetti , M. C. Hoffmann , M. -J. Sher , Z. Chen , S. -H. Yang , M. Samant , S. S. P. Parkin , H. A. Dürr

We investigate optically excited THz standing spin waves in noncollinear magnetic bilayers. Using femtosecond laser-pulse excitation, a spin current is generated in the first ferromagnetic (FM) layer, and flows through a conductive spacer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-08 Mark L. M. Lalieu , Reinoud Lavrijsen , Rembert A. Duine , Bert Koopmans

Electrical control of photogenerated THz spin current pulses from a spintronic emitter has been at the forefront for the development of scalable, cost-efficient, wideband opto-spintronics devices. Artificially combined ferroelectric and…

We study the effect of a surface modification at the interface between metallic electrodes and semiconducting substrate in Semi-Insulating GaAs (SI-GaAs) based photoconductive emitters (PCE) on the emission of Tera-Hertz (THz) radiation. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 Abhishek Singh , Harshad Surdi , V. V. Nikesh , S. S. Prabhu , G. H. Döhler

We exploit InSb's magnetic-induced optical properties to propose THz sub-wavelength antenna designs that actively tune the radiative decay rates of dipole emitters at their proximity. The proposed designs include a spherical InSb antenna…

Spin-to-charge conversion (SCC) involving topological surface states (TSS) is one of the most promising routes for highly efficient spintronic devices for terahertz (THz) emission. Here, the THz generation generally occurs mainly via SCC…

We propose a design of a THz-frequency signal generator based on a layered structure consisting of a current-driven platinum (Pt) layer and a layer of an antiferromagnet (AFM) with easy-plane anisotropy, where the magnetization vectors of…

Bloch-Bloembergen-Slonczewski equation is adopted to simulate magnetization dynamics in spin-valve based spin-transfer torque oscillator with synthetic antiferromagnet acting as a free magnetic layer. High frequency up to the terahertz…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Hai Zhong , Shizhu Qiao , Shishen Yan , Hong Zhang , Yufeng Qin , Lanju Liang , Dequan Wei , Yinrui Zhao , Shishou Kang

We demonstrate multiplexed terahertz emitters that exhibits 2 THz bandwidth that do not require an external bias. The emitters operate under uniform illumination eliminating the need for a micro-lens array and are fabricated with periodic…

The spin torque oscillator (STO), where the magnetization of the fixed layer is tilted out of the film plane, is capable of strong microwave signal generation in zero magnetic field. Through numerical simulations of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-04-29 Yan Zhou , C. L. Zha , S. Bonetti , J. Persson , Johan Akerman