AIP Advances (Feb 2023)

High wave vector non-reciprocal spin wave beams

  • L. Temdie,
  • V. Castel,
  • C. Dubs,
  • G. Pradhan,
  • J. Solano,
  • H. Majjad,
  • R. Bernard,
  • Y. Henry,
  • M. Bailleul,
  • V. Vlaminck

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/9.0000535
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 2
pp. 025207 – 025207-5

Abstract

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We report unidirectional transmission of micron-wide spin waves beams in a 55 nm thin YIG. We downscaled a chiral coupling technique implementing Ni80Fe20 nanowires arrays with different widths and lattice spacing to study the non-reciprocal transmission of exchange spin waves down to λ ≈ 80 nm. A full spin wave spectroscopy analysis of these high wavevector coupled-modes shows some difficulties to characterize their propagation properties, due to both the non-monotonous field dependence of the coupling efficiency, and also the inhomogeneous stray field from the nanowires.