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Ferromagnetic metals and insulators are widely used for generation, control and detection of magnon spin signals. Most magnonic structures are based primarily on either magnetic insulators or ferromagnetic metals, while heterostructures…
Spin waves in yttrium iron garnet (YIG) nano-structures attract increasing attention from the perspective of novel magnon-based data processing applications. For short wavelengths needed in small-scale devices, the group velocity is…
We report strong interfacial exchange coupling in Bi2Se3/yttrium iron garnet (YIG) bilayers manifested as large in-plane interfacial magnetic anisotropy (IMA) and enhancement of damping probed by ferromagnetic resonance (FMR). The IMA and…
Strong-coupling experiments based on magnons enable the exploration into on-chip demonstrations involving numerous long-lived excitations. Yttrium iron garnet (YIG) has been considered for decades as a gold standard material for magnonics…
Diffusive propagation of spin waves and their quanta - magnons - in the archetypal magnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG) is under a surge of research for low-power and low-loss data communication. However, operation under external…
The use of magnetic insulators is attracting a lot of interest due to a rich variety of spin-dependent phenomena with potential applications to spintronic devices. Here we report ultra-thin yttrium iron garnet (YIG) / gadolinium iron garnet…
We use micromagnetic simulations to demonstrate neuron functionality of two-dimensional (2D) chiral magnonic resonators. Our design exploits nonlinear resonant scattering of spin waves propagating in a YIG medium from an edge mode of a…
We investigated the nonreciprocal spin-wave properties, including the frequency shift, of a helical equilibrium state in a versatile CoFeB/NiFe bilayer. Through an extension of the dynamic matrix formalism (developed in this work) to an…
Spin waves are propagating disturbances in the magnetization of magnetic materials. One of their interesting properties is the nonreciprocity, exhibiting that their amplitude depends on the magnetization direction. Nonreciprocity in spin…
The propagation of edge localized spin waves (E-SWs) in yttrium iron garnet (YIG) microstripes with/without the proximate magnetic microstructures is investigated by micromagnetic simulations. A splitting of the dispersion curve with the…
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…
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…
Magnetic media with artificial periodic modulation-magnonic crystals (MCs) - enable tunable spin-wave dynamics and band structure engineering. Nanoscaling enhances these capabilities, making magnonic nanocrystals promising for both…
We report broadband spectroscopy and numerical analysis by which we explore propagating spin waves in a magnetic bilayer consisting of a 23 nm thick permalloy film deposited on 130 nm thick $Y_{3}Fe_{5}O_{12}$. In the bilayer, we observe a…
We demonstrate direct focused ion beam (FIB) writing as an enabling technology for realizing spin-wave-optics devices. It is shown that ion-beam irradiation changes the characteristics of YIG films on a submicron scale in a highly…
The magnetisation dynamics of yttrium iron garnet (Y3Fe5O12, YIG) are key to the operation of spintronic and microwave devices. Here, we report a pathway to manipulate the frequency, damping and absorption of YIG thin films via interface…
We report an experimental study of the unidirectional anisotropy in bilayers made of the important ferrimagnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG) and the room temperature antiferromagnet Ir20Mn80 (IrMn). Measurements of the magnetization…
We study the interaction of surface acoustic waves with spin waves in ultra-thin CoFeB/Pt bilayers. Due to the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), the spin wave dispersion is non-degenerate for oppositely propagating spin…
We report on the excitation and detection of short-waved spin waves with wave vectors up to about $40\,\mathrm{rad}\,\mu\mathrm{m}^{-1}$ in spin-wave waveguides made from ultrathin, in-plane magnetized Co$_{8}$Fe$_{72}$B$_{20}$ (CoFeB). The…
We report large nonreciprocity in the transmission of shear-horizontal surface acoustic waves (SAWs) on LiTaO3 substrate coated with a FeCoSiB/NiFeCu magnetoelastic bilayer. The large difference in saturation magnetization of the two layers…