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The growth and characterization of Bismuth (Bi) substituted YIG (Bi-YIG, Bi0.1Y2.9Fe5O12) thin films are reported. Pulsed laser deposited (PLD) films with thicknesses ranging from 20 to 150 nm were grown on Gadolinium Gallium Garnet…

We theoretically demonstrate that adding an easy-axis magnetic anisotropy facilitates magnon condensation in thin yttrium iron garnet (YIG) films. Dipolar interactions in a quasi-equilibrium state stabilize room-temperature magnon…

Rare-earth ions in bulk crystals are excellent solid-state quantum systems in quantum information science, owing to the exceptional optical and spin coherence properties. However, the weak fluorescence of single rare-earth ions present a…

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has been extensively studied in recent years for its remarkable quantum coherence properties that make it an ideal candidate for room temperature quantum computing and quantum sensing schemes.…

Spin-wave based transmission and processing of information is a promising emerging nano-technology that can help overcome limitations of traditional electronics based on the transfer of electrical charge. Among the most important challenges…

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…

Weexperimentally study the temperature dependence of the magnon-phonon coupling in a yttrium iron garnet (YIG)/gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG) heterostructure. More specifically, we use broadband ferromagnetic resonance to investigate the…

A frequency-tunable low phase noise magneto-acoustic resonator is developed on the base of a parallel-plate straight-edge bilayer consisting of a yttrium-iron garnet (YIG) layer grown on a substrate of a gallium-gadolinium garnet(GGG). When…

Cerium substituted yttrium iron garnet (Ce:YIG) epitaxial thin films are prepared on gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG) substrate with pulsed laser deposition (PLD). It is observed that the films grown on GGG(111) substrate exhibit…

Spin-wave-based computing has emerged as a promising approach to overcome the fundamental limitations of CMOS technologies. However, the increasing demand for device miniaturization down to a 100 nm scale presents significant challenges for…

The magnetic insulator Yttrium Iron Garnet can be grown with exceptional quality, has a ferrimagnetic transition temperature of nearly 600 K, and is used in microwave and spintronic devices that can operate at room temperature. The most…

We demonstrate an all-optical method for manipulating the magnetization in a 1-mm YIG (yttrium-iron-garnet) sphere placed in a $\sim0.17\,$T uniform magnetic field. An harmonic of the frequency comb delivered by a multi-GHz infrared laser…

Magneto-optical materials are indispensable across modern physics, serving as the foundation for precision magnetic sensing, nonreciprocal photonics, and optical isolation technologies. The continual pursuit of materials with high Verdet…

Spin-orbit effects [1-4] have the potential of radically changing the field of spintronics by allowing transfer of spin angular momentum to a whole new class of materials. In a seminal letter to Nature [5], Kajiwara et al. showed that by…

A systematic study of the coupling at room temperature between ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) and a planar resonator is presented. The chosen magnetic material is a ferrimagnetic insulator (Yttrium Iron Garnet: YIG) which is positioned on…

We report a study on spin conductance in ultra-thin films of Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG), where spin transport is provided by propagating spin waves, that are generated and detected by direct and inverse spin Hall effects in two Pt wires…

Microscale resonators are fundamental and necessary building blocks for modern radio communication filters for mobile devices. The resonator's Q factor ($Q$) determines the insertion loss while coupling ($K_t^2$) governs the fractional…

In this article I report about a numerical investigation of nonlinear spin dynamics in a magnetic thin-film, made of Yttrium-Iron-Garnet (YIG). This film is exposed to a small in-plane oriented magnetic field, and strong spin currents. The…

We discuss threshold field-dependence of the decay rate of the uniform magnon mode in yttrium iron garnet (YIG) thin films. We demonstrate that decays must cease to exist in YIG films of thickness less than 1 \mu m, the lengthscale defined…

Rare-earth ion-doped crystals are of great interest for quantum memories, a central component in future quantum repeaters. To assess the promise of 1$\%$ Tm$^{3+}$-doped yttrium gallium garnet (Tm:YGG), we report measurements of optical…