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Magnon-phonon coupling has garnered increasing interest in condensed matter physics due to its fertile physics and potential applications in devices with novel functionalities. Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are commonly employed as a source…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-18 Takuya Kawada , Masashi Kawaguchi , Hiroki Matsumoto , Masamitsu Hayashi

Synthetic antiferromagnets host spin waves that are highly tunable. It is of practical interest to analyze the symmetry of their coupling to surface acoustic waves with the design of hybrid devices in view. For this we calculate the…

Established techniques for characterizing a layer on a substrate system via surface acoustic wave (SAW) dispersion measurement are often slow due to the need for scanning excitation or detection positions. We present a method for…

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs), coherent vibrational modes localized at solid surfaces, have been employed to manipulate and detect electronic and magnetic states in condensed-matter systems via strain. SAWs are commonly excited in a…

The propagation of a surface acoustic wave (SAW) on GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures is studied in the case where the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is subject to a strong magnetic field and a smooth random potential with correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Andreas Knaebchen , Yehoshua Levinson , Ora Entin-Wohlman

Surface Acoustic Wave gas sensors have garnered increasing attention as highly sensitive, miniaturized, and wireless compatible platforms for molecular detection. Their unique ability to convert surface perturbations into measurable…

We show that the magnetic moment of a nanoparticle embedded in the surface of a solid can be switched by surface acoustic waves (SAW) in the GHz frequency range via a universal mechanism that does not depend on the structure of the particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Eugene M. Chudnovsky , Reem Jaafar

A magnetoelectric surface acoustic wave (MESAW) type device based on piezoelectric/magnetostrictive heterostructure was proposed to use as weak magnetic field sensor. Unlike conventional magnetoelectric bulk laminates or film stacks…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-20 Liang Huang , Dandan Wen , Zhiyong Zhong , Huaiwu Zhang , Feiming Bai

Rectification phenomenon caused by the simultaneous breaking of time reversal and spatial inversion symmetries has been extended to a wide range of (quasi)particles and waves; however, the nonreciprocal diffraction, which is the imbalance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Yoichi Nii , Kei Yamamoto , Masaki Kanno , Sadamichi Maekawa , Yoshinori Onose

Focusing microcavities for surface acoustic waves (SAWs) produce highly localized strain and piezoelectric fields that can dynamically control excitations in nanostructures. Focusing transducers (FIDTs) that generate SAW beams which match…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Madeleine E. Msall , Paulo V. Santos

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) coupled to magnons have attracted much attention because they allow for the long-range transport of magnetic information which cannot be achieved by magnon alone. We employed pulsed laser interferometry to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-30 Kazuki Maezawa , Shun Fujii , Kazuto Yamanoi , Yukio Nozaki , Shinichi Watanabe

We report on the resonant excitation of spin waves in micro-structured magnetic thin films by surface acoustic waves (SAWs). The spin waves as well as the acoustic waves are studied by micro-focused Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy.…

We investigate the propagation of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in a layered half-space system comprising a continuous, sub-wavelength-thick layer weakly adhering to a substrate. Using finite element simulations, we demonstrate that this…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Martin Robin , Thomas Dehoux , Maroun Abi Ghanem

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) hold a vast potential in various fields such as spintronics, quantum acoustics, and electron-quantum optics, but an electromagnetic wave emanating from SAW generation circuits has often been a major hurdle.…

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

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…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Mingxian Huang , Yuanyuan Liu , Wenbin Hu , Yutong Wu , Wen Wang , Wei He , Huaiwu Zhang , Feiming Bai

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

Electroluminescence emission from surface acoustic wave-driven light-emitting diodes (SAWLEDs) is studied by means of time-resolved techniques. We show that the intensity of the SAW-induced electroluminescence is modulated at the SAW…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Marco Cecchini , Vincenzo Piazza , Fabio Beltram , D. G. Gevaux , M. B. Ward , A. J. Shields , H. E. Beere , D. A. Ritchie

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are widely used in sensing and biosensing but generally suffer from strong attenuation in liquid environments. Conventional approaches rely on reflectors to reduce these losses, yet these components…

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators provide a compact platform for confining microwave-frequency phonons and are widely used in radio-frequency technologies, but their operation at gigahertz frequencies and cryogenic temperatures remains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Aldo Tarascio , Oliver Wicki , Dominik M. Zumbühl