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Spin wave propagation in structures with locally modified magnetic anisotropy
Roučka, Václav ; Flajšman, Lukáš (oponent) ; Urbánek, Michal (vedoucí práce)
Devices based on spin waves have the potential to be used in low-power data processing. Naturally, a successful application would require many of those devices to be interconnected on a chip. Such a chip would have to include steering of spin waves through turned waveguides. The issue of steering dipole-exchange spin waves through waveguides has not been sufficiently solved so far, as the tested designs lead to a loss of intensity and phase coherence. In the presented thesis, we have studied two systems, which could be exploited for spin-wave steering. First, we dealt with metastable iron-nickel thin films. The paramagnetic metastable fcc layer epitaxially grown on a Cu substrate can be transformed into a stable ferromagnetic bcc phase by a focused ion beam. This technique gives us spatial control over the transformation process, and the scanning strategy even allows us to determine the direction of magnetic anisotropy. Magnetic properties of structures prepared by this technique, together with spin-wave refraction between domains with different anisotropy directions, were characterized by Brillouin light scattering microscopy. Moreover, we have studied spin-wave propagation in a system with corrugation induced magnetic anisotropy. The corrugated magnetic film is created by focused electron beam-induced deposition of nonmagnetic ridges on a substrate and subsequent deposition of the magnetic material. Turned corrugated waveguides of different designs were prepared and we have measured spin-wave propagation through them by Brillouin light scattering microscopy. Micromagnetic simulations were also employed to provide further insight and to help us identify good experimental designs.
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Spin wave propagation in structures with locally modified magnetic anisotropy
Roučka, Václav ; Flajšman, Lukáš (oponent) ; Urbánek, Michal (vedoucí práce)
Devices based on spin waves have the potential to be used in low-power data processing. Naturally, a successful application would require many of those devices to be interconnected on a chip. Such a chip would have to include steering of spin waves through turned waveguides. The issue of steering dipole-exchange spin waves through waveguides has not been sufficiently solved so far, as the tested designs lead to a loss of intensity and phase coherence. In the presented thesis, we have studied two systems, which could be exploited for spin-wave steering. First, we dealt with metastable iron-nickel thin films. The paramagnetic metastable fcc layer epitaxially grown on a Cu substrate can be transformed into a stable ferromagnetic bcc phase by a focused ion beam. This technique gives us spatial control over the transformation process, and the scanning strategy even allows us to determine the direction of magnetic anisotropy. Magnetic properties of structures prepared by this technique, together with spin-wave refraction between domains with different anisotropy directions, were characterized by Brillouin light scattering microscopy. Moreover, we have studied spin-wave propagation in a system with corrugation induced magnetic anisotropy. The corrugated magnetic film is created by focused electron beam-induced deposition of nonmagnetic ridges on a substrate and subsequent deposition of the magnetic material. Turned corrugated waveguides of different designs were prepared and we have measured spin-wave propagation through them by Brillouin light scattering microscopy. Micromagnetic simulations were also employed to provide further insight and to help us identify good experimental designs.
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