Resonant and nonlinear phenomena during the propagation of magnetostatic waves in multiferroid, semiconductor and metallized structures based on ferromagnetic films and magnonic crystals

Abstract

Purpose of this work is to compile an overview of a new and fruitful scientific direction in magnonics, which grew out of the works of Ph.D., Professor Yuri Pavlovich Sharaevsky, and related to the study of resonant and nonlinear phenomena during the propagation of magnetostatic waves in ferromagnetic films, ferromagnetic films with periodic inhomogeneities (magnonic crystals), coupled (layered and lateral) ferromagnetic structures, as well as ferromagnetic structures with layers of a different physical nature (semiconductor, ferroelectric, piezoelectric, normal metal layers). Methods. Experimental and theoretical methods have been used to study spin-wave excitations in a wide class of structures with ferromagnetic layers. In particular, experimental radiophysical methods of microwave measurements and optical methods of Mandelstam-Brillouin spectroscopy. For the construction of theoretical models, the following methods are used: the method of coupled waves, the method of crosslinking magnetic permeability at the boundaries of layers, the method of transmission matrices, long-wave approximation. Results. The presented results are of general scientific importance for understanding the basic laws of the joint influence of coupling, periodicity and interactions of different physical nature (the influence on the magnetostatic wave of deformation in periodic structures with piezoelectric, electromagnetic wave in structures with ferroelectric, electric current in structures with semiconductor, spin current in structures with normal metal). In applied terms, the identified effects open up wide opportunities for creation of new devices of spin-wave electronics with the possibility of dynamic control of characteristics when changing the electric and magnetic fields, as well as the power of the input signal. Conclusions. The review of the most interesting results obtained by the authors together with Yuri Pavlovich and which are an ideological continuation of the foundations laid by him is given. 

Keywords

• ferromagnetic film
• magnetostatic wave
• magnonic crystal
• semiconductor
• ferroelectric
• piezoelectric
• normal metal