Junior Research Group Nanoscaled Magnonic Hybrids

Spin waves, the elementary low energy excitations of an ordered spin system, and their bosonic quanta, magnons, carry energy and angular momentum in the form of spin. The field of magnonics aims to create devices for sensing, data processing and logic which are based on spin waves and their outstanding properties like intrinsic nonlinearity and nanometer wavelengths at GHz frequencies.

Our scientific aim is to explore and combine emerging physical phenomena which can be used to realise novel magnonic hybrid systems with novel and superior characteristics. We have a particular focus on:

  • Nonlinear spin-wave phenomena in micro- and nanostructures
  • Nanoscaled magnonic devices for unconventional data processing
  • Novel materials for magnonics including low-damping Heuler compounds
  • Hybrid systems combining magnonics with spintronic and phononic systems
  • Amplification and control of coherent spin-waves in micro-and nanostructures using parametric processes
  • Nonreciprocal magnonic systems based on dipole-dipole and DMI interactions

To achieve our goals, we investigate magnonics systems experimentally by Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy and inductive techniques. To study and optimize magnonic systems before fabrication, we employ massively parallelized micromagnetic simulations. These simulations are run and analysed by our home-made AITHERICON software platform with the aim to use artificial intelligence, neural networks and inverse design methods to create magnonic systems with designed and superior properties for wave-based transport and data processing.

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Der Spin schlägt Wellen

We are very happy that our group could contribute to this article for the general public which explains the idea of spin-wave based computing. It appeared in the „Bild der Wissenschaft“ (in German) in April 2022 and is linked below.
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SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND ACCEPTED SUBMISSIONS

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    2023

  1. Amplification and frequency conversion of spin waves using acoustic waves
    Morteza Mohseni, Abbass Hamadeh, Moritz Geilen, Philipp Pirro
    2302.10614
    • SAW


  2. Reversal of coupled vortices in advanced spintronics: A mechanistic study
    A. Hamadeh, A. Koujok, S. Perna, D. R. Rodrigues, A. Riveros, V. Lomakin, G. Finocchio, G. de Loubens, O. Klein, P. Pirro
    arXiv.2302.11616


  3. Coupling of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic spin dynamics in Mn2Au/NiFe thin-film bilayers
    H. Al-Hamdo, T. Wagner, Y. Lytvynenko, G. Kendzo, S. Reimers, M. Ruhwedel, M. Yaqoob, V. I. Vasyuchka, P. Pirro, J. Sinova, M. Kläui, M. Jourdan, O. Gomonay, M. Weiler
    arXiv.2302.07915


  4. Quantifying Li-content for compositional tailoring of lithium ferrite ceramics
    C. Granados-Miralles, A. Serrano, P. Prieto, J. Guzmán-Mínguez, J.E. Prieto, A.M. Friedel, E. García-Martín, J.F. Fernández, A. Quesada
    Journal of the European Ceramic Society


  5. Quantifying symmetric exchange in ultrathin ferromagnetic films with chirality
    T. Böttcher, X. Chen, B. Sinha, T. S. Suraj, H. R. Tan, H. K. Tan, B. Hillebrands, M. Kostylev, R. Laskowski, K. H. Khoo, A. Soumyanarayanan, and P. Pirro
    Physical Review B
    arXiv.2109.03909
    • BLS