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Enhanced Photon–Phonon Interaction in WSe2 Acoustic Nanocavities (2024)
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Carr, A. D., Ruppert, C., Samusev, A. K., Magnabosco, G., Vogel, N., Linnik, T. L., …Akimov, A. V. (2024). Enhanced Photon–Phonon Interaction in WSe2 Acoustic Nanocavities. ACS Photonics, 11(3), 1147–1155. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.3c01601

Acoustic nanocavities (ANCs) with resonance frequencies much above 1 GHz are prospective to be exploited in sensors and quantum operating devices. Nowadays, acoustic nanocavities fabricated from van der Waals (vdW) nanolayers allow them to exhibit re... Read More about Enhanced Photon–Phonon Interaction in WSe2 Acoustic Nanocavities.

Hybrid coherent control of magnons in a ferromagnetic phononic resonator excited by laser pulses (2024)
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Scherbakov, A. V., Carr, A. D., Linnik, T. L., Kukhtaruk, S. M., Armour, A. D., Nadzeyka, A., …Bayer, M. (2024). Hybrid coherent control of magnons in a ferromagnetic phononic resonator excited by laser pulses. Physical Review Research, 6(1), Article L012019. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L012019

We propose and demonstrate the concept of hybrid coherent control (CC) whereby a quantum or classical harmonic oscillator is excited by two excitations: one is quasiharmonic (i.e., harmonic with a finite lifetime) and the other is a pulsed broadband... Read More about Hybrid coherent control of magnons in a ferromagnetic phononic resonator excited by laser pulses.

On-chip phonon-magnon reservoir for neuromorphic computing (2023)
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Yaremkevich, D. D., Scherbakov, A. V., De Clerk, L., Kukhtaruk, S. M., Nadzeyka, A., Campion, R., …Bayer, M. (2023). On-chip phonon-magnon reservoir for neuromorphic computing. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 8296. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43891-y

Reservoir computing is a concept involving mapping signals onto a high-dimensional phase space of a dynamical system called “reservoir” for subsequent recognition by an artificial neural network. We implement this concept in a nanodevice consisting o... Read More about On-chip phonon-magnon reservoir for neuromorphic computing.

Ultrafast magnetoacoustics in Galfenol nanostructures (2023)
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Scherbakov, A. V., Linnik, T. L., Kukhtaruk, S. M., Yakovlev, D. R., Nadzeyka, A., Rushforth, A. W., …Bayer, M. (2023). Ultrafast magnetoacoustics in Galfenol nanostructures. Photoacoustics, 34, Article 100565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pacs.2023.100565

Phonons and magnons are prospective information carriers to substitute the transfer of charge in nanoscale communication devices. Our ability to manipulate them at the nanoscale and with ultimate speed is examined by ultrafast acoustics and femtoseco... Read More about Ultrafast magnetoacoustics in Galfenol nanostructures.

Antiferromagnetic half-skyrmions electrically generated and controlled at room temperature (2023)
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Amin, O. J., Poole, S. F., Reimers, S., Barton, L. X., Dal Din, A., Maccherozzi, F., …Wadley, P. (2023). Antiferromagnetic half-skyrmions electrically generated and controlled at room temperature. Nature Nanotechnology, 18(8), 849-853. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-023-01386-3

Topologically protected magnetic textures are promising candidates for information carriers in future memory devices, as they can be efficiently propelled at very high velocities using current-induced spin torques. These textures—nanoscale whirls in... Read More about Antiferromagnetic half-skyrmions electrically generated and controlled at room temperature.

Coherent Phononics of van der Waals Layers on Nanogratings (2022)
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Yan, W., Akimov, A. V., Barra-Burillo, M., Bayer, M., Bradford, J., Gusev, V. E., …Linnik, T. L. (2022). Coherent Phononics of van der Waals Layers on Nanogratings. Nano Letters, 22(16), 6509-6515. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c01542

Strain engineering can be used to control the physical properties of two-dimensional van der Waals (2D-vdW) crystals. Coherent phonons, which carry dynamical strain, could push strain engineering to control classical and quantum phenomena in the unex... Read More about Coherent Phononics of van der Waals Layers on Nanogratings.

Transition magnon modes in thin ferromagnetic nanogratings (2022)
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Kukhtaruk, S. M., Rushforth, A. W., Godejohann, F., Scherbakov, A. V., & Bayer, M. (2022). Transition magnon modes in thin ferromagnetic nanogratings. Physical Review B, 106(6), Article 064411. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.064411

This work presents micromagnetic simulations in ferromagnetic nanogratings for the full range of directions of an applied in-plane external magnetic field. We focus on the modification of the magnon mode characteristics when the magnetic field orient... Read More about Transition magnon modes in thin ferromagnetic nanogratings.

Spectrum evolution and chirping of laser-induced spin wave packets in thin iron films (2022)
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Filatov, I. A., Gerevenkov, P. I., Wang, M., Rushforth, A. W., Kalashnikova, A. M., & Khokhlov, N. E. (2022). Spectrum evolution and chirping of laser-induced spin wave packets in thin iron films. Applied Physics Letters, 120(11), Article 112404. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0077195

We present an experimental study of ultrafast optical excitation of magnetostatic surface spin wave (MSSW) packets and their spectral properties in thin films of pure iron. As the packets leave the excitation area and propagate in space, their spectr... Read More about Spectrum evolution and chirping of laser-induced spin wave packets in thin iron films.

Magnon polaron formed by selectively coupled coherent magnon and phonon modes of a surface patterned ferromagnet (2020)
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Godejohann, F., Scherbakov, A., Kukhtaruk, S., Poddubny, A., Yaremkevich, D., Wang, M., …Bayer, M. (2020). Magnon polaron formed by selectively coupled coherent magnon and phonon modes of a surface patterned ferromagnet. Physical Review B, 102(14), Article 144438. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.144438

Strong coupling between two quanta of different excitations leads to the formation of a hybridized state which paves a way for exploiting new degrees of freedom to control phenomena with high efficiency and precision. A magnon polaron is the hybridiz... Read More about Magnon polaron formed by selectively coupled coherent magnon and phonon modes of a surface patterned ferromagnet.

Resonant thermal energy transfer to magnons in a ferromagnetic nanolayer (2020)
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Kobecki, M., Scherbakov, A. V., Linnik, T. L., Kukhtaruk, S. M., Gusev, V. E., Pattnaik, D. P., …Bayer, M. (2020). Resonant thermal energy transfer to magnons in a ferromagnetic nanolayer. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 4130. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17635-1

Energy harvesting is a concept which makes dissipated heat useful by transferring thermal energy to other excitations. Most of the existing principles are realized in systems which are heated continuously. We present the concept of high-frequency ene... Read More about Resonant thermal energy transfer to magnons in a ferromagnetic nanolayer.

Complementary Lateral-Spin-Orbit Building Blocks for Programmable Logic and In-Memory Computing (2020)
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Zhang, N., Cao, Y., Li, Y., Rushforth, A. W., Ji, Y., Zheng, H., & Wang, K. (2020). Complementary Lateral-Spin-Orbit Building Blocks for Programmable Logic and In-Memory Computing. Advanced Electronic Materials, 6(8), Article 2000296. https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202000296

Current-driven switching of nonvolatile spintronic materials and devices based on spin–orbit torques offer fast data processing speed, low power consumption, and unlimited endurance for future information processing applications. Analogous to convent... Read More about Complementary Lateral-Spin-Orbit Building Blocks for Programmable Logic and In-Memory Computing.

Low-energy switching of antiferromagnetic CuMnAs/GaP using sub-10 nanosecond current pulses (2020)
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Omari, K. A., Barton, L. X., Amin, O., Campion, R. P., Rushforth, A. W., Kent, A. J., …Edmonds, K. W. (2020). Low-energy switching of antiferromagnetic CuMnAs/GaP using sub-10 nanosecond current pulses. Journal of Applied Physics, 127(19), Article 193906. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0006183

The recently discovered electrical-induced switching of antiferromagnetic (AF) materials that have spatial inversion asymmetry has enriched the field of spintronics immensely and opened the door for the concept of antiferromagnetic memory devices. Cu... Read More about Low-energy switching of antiferromagnetic CuMnAs/GaP using sub-10 nanosecond current pulses.

Spin flop and crystalline anisotropic magnetoresistance in CuMnAs (2020)
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Wang, M., Andrews, C., Reimers, S., Amin, O. J., Wadley, P., Campion, R. P., …Maccherozzi, F. (2020). Spin flop and crystalline anisotropic magnetoresistance in CuMnAs. Physical Review B, 101(9), Article 094429. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.094429

We report magnetic-field-induced rotation of the antiferromagnetic Néel vector in epitaxial CuMnAs thin films. First, using soft x-ray magnetic linear dichroism spectroscopy as well as magnetometry, we demonstrate spin-flop switching and continuous s... Read More about Spin flop and crystalline anisotropic magnetoresistance in CuMnAs.

Suppression of Dynamically Induced Stochastic Magnetic Behaviour through Materials Engineering (2020)
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Broomhall, T., Rushforth, A., Rosamond, M., Linfield, E., & Hayward, T. (2020). Suppression of Dynamically Induced Stochastic Magnetic Behaviour through Materials Engineering. Physical Review Applied, 13(2), Article 024039. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.024039

tochastic behavior fundamentally limits the performance and reliability of nanomagnetic devices. Typically, stochastic behavior is assumed to be the result of simple thermal activation, but it may also be “dynamically induced,” i.e., a direct result... Read More about Suppression of Dynamically Induced Stochastic Magnetic Behaviour through Materials Engineering.

Suppression of Dynamically Induced Stochastic Magnetic Behaviour through Materials Engineering (2020)
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Broomhall, T., Rushforth, A., Rosamond, M., Linfield, E., & Hayward, T. (2020). Suppression of Dynamically Induced Stochastic Magnetic Behaviour through Materials Engineering. Physical Review Applied, 13(2), Article 024039. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.024039

Stochastic behaviour fundamentally limits the performance and reliability of nanomagnetic devices. Typically, stochastic behaviour is assumed to be the result of simple thermal activation, but it may also be "dynamically induced" i.e. a direct result... Read More about Suppression of Dynamically Induced Stochastic Magnetic Behaviour through Materials Engineering.

Switching the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy by ion irradiation induced compensation (2018)
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Yuan, Y., Amarouche, T., Xu, C., Rushforth, A., Böttger, R., Edmonds, K., …Zhou, S. (2018). Switching the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy by ion irradiation induced compensation. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 51(14), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/aab1db

© 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd. In the present work, the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy of GaMnAsP is modified by helium ion irradiation. According to the micro-magnetic parameters, e.g. resonance fields and anisotropy constants deduced from ferromagnetic r... Read More about Switching the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy by ion irradiation induced compensation.

Generation of a localised microwave magnetic field by coherent phonons in a ferromagnetic grating (2018)
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Salasyuk, A., Rudkovskaya, A., Danilov, A., Glavin, B., Kukhtaruk, S., Wang, M., …Scherbakov, A. (2018). Generation of a localised microwave magnetic field by coherent phonons in a ferromagnetic grating. Physical Review B, 97(6), Article 060404. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.060404

A high-amplitude microwave magnetic field localized at the nanoscale is a desirable tool for various applications within the rapidly developing field of nanomagnetism. Here, we drive magnetization precession by coherent phonons in a metal ferromagnet... Read More about Generation of a localised microwave magnetic field by coherent phonons in a ferromagnetic grating.

The effect of dynamical compressive and shear strain on magnetic anisotropy in a low symmetry ferromagnetic film (2017)
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Linnik, T., Kats, V., Jäger, J., Salasyuk, A., Yakovlev, D., Rushforth, A., …Scherbakov, A. (2017). The effect of dynamical compressive and shear strain on magnetic anisotropy in a low symmetry ferromagnetic film. Physica Scripta, 92(5), Article 054006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/aa6943

Dynamical strain generated upon excitation of a metallic film by a femtosecond laser pulse may become a versatile tool enabling control of magnetic state of thin _lms and nanostructures via inverse magnetostriction on a picosecond time scale. Here we... Read More about The effect of dynamical compressive and shear strain on magnetic anisotropy in a low symmetry ferromagnetic film.

Precise tuning of the Curie temperature of (Ga,Mn)As-based magnetic semiconductors by hole compensation: Support for valence-band ferromagnetism (2016)
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Zhou, S., Li, L., Yuan, Y., Rushforth, A., Chen, L., Wang, Y., …Helm, M. (2016). Precise tuning of the Curie temperature of (Ga,Mn)As-based magnetic semiconductors by hole compensation: Support for valence-band ferromagnetism. Physical Review B, 94(7), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.075205

For the prototype diluted ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As, there is a fundamental concern about the electronic states near the Fermi level, i.e., whether the Fermi level resides in a well-separated impurity band derived from Mn doping (impurity... Read More about Precise tuning of the Curie temperature of (Ga,Mn)As-based magnetic semiconductors by hole compensation: Support for valence-band ferromagnetism.