Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Excitation of coherent propagating spin waves by pure spin currents

  • Vladislav E. Demidov,
  • Sergei Urazhdin,
  • Ronghua Liu,
  • Boris Divinskiy,
  • Andrey Telegin,
  • Sergej O. Demokritov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10446
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Dynamical effects driven by pure spin currents in magnetic nanostructures have so far been limited to spatially confined excitations, limiting potential magnonic applications. Here, the authors demonstrate the generation of coherent propagating spin waves in NiFe films induced by pure spin currents.