npj Spintronics (Sep 2024)

Hybrid magnon-phonon crystals

  • Liyang Liao,
  • Jiacheng Liu,
  • Jorge Puebla,
  • Qiming Shao,
  • Yoshichika Otani

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44306-024-00052-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Abstract Magnons and phonons are engineered in artificial lattices with tunable modes and band dispersions. Recent advance in magnon-phonon coupling shined a light on combining magnonic and phononic crystals as hybrid magnon-phonon crystals, benefit from the tunable magnon-phonon coupling, the time-reversal symmetry breaking of magnons, and the long lifetime of phonons. This perspective summarizes lattice-based mutual control of magnons and phonons, and proposes the opportunities provided by the hybrid magnon-phonon crystals.