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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.

Bi2Se3 interlayer treatments affecting the Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) platinum spin Seebeck effect (2023)
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Hu, Y., Weir, M. P., Pereira, H. J., Amin, O. J., Pitcairn, J., Cliffe, M. J., …Woodward, S. (2023). Bi2Se3 interlayer treatments affecting the Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) platinum spin Seebeck effect. Applied Physics Letters, 123(22), Article 223902. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0157778

In this work, we present a method to enhance the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect at platinum/yttrium iron garnet (Pt/YIG) interfaces. The introduction of a partial interlayer of bismuth selenide (Bi2Se3, 2.5% surface coverage) interfaces significant... Read More about Bi2Se3 interlayer treatments affecting the Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) platinum spin Seebeck effect.

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.

Effect of magnetic anisotropy relaxation on laser-induced magnetization precession in thin galfenol films (2021)
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Gerevenkov, P. I., Kuntu, D. V., Filatov, I. A., Shelukhin, L. A., Wang, M., Pattnaik, D. P., …Khokhlov, N. E. (2021). Effect of magnetic anisotropy relaxation on laser-induced magnetization precession in thin galfenol films. Physical Review Materials, 5(9), Article 094407. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.094407

The rate and pathways of relaxation of a magnetic medium to its equilibrium following excitation with intense and short laser pulses are the key ingredients of ultrafast optical control of spins. Here we study experimentally the evolution of the magn... Read More about Effect of magnetic anisotropy relaxation on laser-induced magnetization precession in thin galfenol films.

Protected Long-Distance Guiding of Hypersound Underneath a Nanocorrugated Surface (2021)
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Yaremkevich, D. D., Scherbakov, A. V., Kukhtaruk, S. M., Linnik, T. L., Khokhlov, N. E., Godejohann, F., …Bayer, M. (2021). Protected Long-Distance Guiding of Hypersound Underneath a Nanocorrugated Surface. ACS Nano, 15(3), 4802–4810. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c09475

In nanoscale communications, high-frequency surface acoustic waves are becoming effective data carriers and encoders. On-chip communications require acoustic wave propagation along nanocorrugated surfaces which strongly scatter traditional Rayleigh w... Read More about Protected Long-Distance Guiding of Hypersound Underneath a Nanocorrugated Surface.

Magnetism and magnetoresistance in the critical region of a dilute ferromagnet (2021)
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Wang, M., Howells, B., Marshall, R. A., Taylor, J. M., Edmonds, K. W., Rushforth, A. W., …Gallagher, B. L. (2021). Magnetism and magnetoresistance in the critical region of a dilute ferromagnet. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 2300. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81893-2

We present detailed experimental measurements and simulations of the field-dependent magnetization and magnetoresistance in the vicinity of the Curie temperature in the highly disordered dilute ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As. The observed depe... Read More about Magnetism and magnetoresistance in the critical region of a dilute ferromagnet.

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.

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), 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), 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.

Optical Excitation of Propagating Magnetostatic Waves in an Epitaxial Galfenol Film by Ultrafast Magnetic Anisotropy Change (2019)
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Khokhlov, N. E., Gerevenkov, P. I., Shelukhin, L. A., Azovtsev, A. V., Pertsev, N. A., Wang, M., …Kalashnikova, A. M. (2019). Optical Excitation of Propagating Magnetostatic Waves in an Epitaxial Galfenol Film by Ultrafast Magnetic Anisotropy Change. Physical Review Applied, 12(4), Article 044044. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.12.044044

© 2019 American Physical Society. Using a time-resolved optically pumped scanning-optical-microscopy technique, we demonstrate the laser-driven excitation and propagation of spin waves in a 20-nm film of a ferromagnetic metallic alloy Galfenol epitax... Read More about Optical Excitation of Propagating Magnetostatic Waves in an Epitaxial Galfenol Film by Ultrafast Magnetic Anisotropy Change.

Optical excitation of single- and multi-mode magnetization precession in Fe-Ga nanolayers (2019)
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Scherbakov, A., Danilov, A., Godejohann, F., Linnik, T., Glavin, B., Shelukhin, L. A., …Bayer, M. (2019). Optical excitation of single- and multi-mode magnetization precession in Fe-Ga nanolayers. Physical Review Applied, 11(3), Article 031003. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.031003

We demonstrate a variety of precessional responses of the magnetization to ultrafast optical excitation in nanolayers of Galfenol (Fe,Ga), which is a ferromagnetic material with large saturation magnetization and enhanced magnetostriction. The partic... Read More about Optical excitation of single- and multi-mode magnetization precession in Fe-Ga nanolayers.

Optical excitation of single-and multi-mode magnetization precession in Fe-Ga nanolayers (2019)
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Scherbakov, A., Danilov, A., Godejohann, F., Linnik, T., Glavin, B., Shelukhin, L., …Bayer, M. (2019). Optical excitation of single-and multi-mode magnetization precession in Fe-Ga nanolayers. Physical Review Applied, 11(3), Article 031003. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.031003

We demonstrate a variety of precessional responses of the magnetization to ultrafast optical excitation in nanolayers of Galfenol (Fe,Ga), which is a ferromagnetic material with large saturation magnetization and enhanced magnetostriction. The partic... Read More about Optical excitation of single-and multi-mode magnetization precession in Fe-Ga nanolayers.

Tuning a binary ferromagnet into a multi-state synapse with spin-orbit-torque-induced plasticity (2019)
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Cao, Y., Rushforth, A., Sheng, Y., Zheng, H., & Wang, K. (2019). Tuning a binary ferromagnet into a multi-state synapse with spin-orbit-torque-induced plasticity. Advanced Functional Materials, 29(25), https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201808104

Ferromagnets with binary states are limited for applications as artificial synapses for neuromorphic computing. Here, it is shown how synaptic plasticity of a perpendicular ferromagnetic layer (FM1) can be obtained when it is interlayer exchange‐coup... Read More about Tuning a binary ferromagnet into a multi-state synapse with spin-orbit-torque-induced plasticity.

Multilevel information storage using magnetoelastic layer stacks (2019)
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Pattnaik, D., Beardsley, R., Love, C., Cavill, S., Edmonds, K., & Rushforth, A. (2019). Multilevel information storage using magnetoelastic layer stacks. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 3156. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39775-1

The use of voltages to control magnetisation via the inverse magnetostriction effect in piezoelectric/ferromagnet heterostructures holds promise for ultra-low energy information storage technologies. Epitaxial galfenol, an alloy of iron and gallium,... Read More about Multilevel information storage using magnetoelastic layer stacks.

Optically excited spin pumping mediating collective magnetization dynamicsin a spin valve structure (2018)
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Danilov, A., Scherbakov, A., Glavin, B., Linnik, T., Kalashnikova, A., Shelukhin, L., …Bayer, M. (2018). Optically excited spin pumping mediating collective magnetization dynamicsin a spin valve structure. Physical Review B, 98(6), Article 060406. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.060406

We demonstrate spin pumping, i.e. the generation of a pure spin current by precessing magnetization, without application of microwave radiation commonly used in spin pumping experiments. We use femtosecond laser pulses to simultaneously launch the ma... Read More about Optically excited spin pumping mediating collective magnetization dynamicsin a spin valve structure.

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.

Deterministic control of magnetic vortex wall chirality by electric field (2017)
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Beardsley, R., Bowe, S., Parkes, D., Reardon, C., Edmonds, K., Gallagher, B., …Rushforth, A. (2017). Deterministic control of magnetic vortex wall chirality by electric field. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 7613. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07944-9

Concepts for information storage and logical processing based on magnetic domain walls have great potential for implementation in future information and communications technologies. To date, the need to apply power hungry magnetic fields or heat diss... Read More about Deterministic control of magnetic vortex wall chirality by electric field.

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.

Effect of lithographically-induced strain relaxation on the magnetic domain configuration in microfabricated epitaxially grown Fe81Ga19 (2017)
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Beardsley, R. P., Parkes, D. E., Zemen, J., Bowe, S., Edmonds, K. W., Reardon, C., …Rushforth, A. W. (2017). Effect of lithographically-induced strain relaxation on the magnetic domain configuration in microfabricated epitaxially grown Fe81Ga19. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 42107. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep42107

We investigate the role of lithographically-induced strain relaxation in a micron-scaled device fabricated from epitaxial thin films of the magnetostrictive alloy Fe81Ga19. The strain relaxation due to lithographic patterning induces a magnetic aniso... Read More about Effect of lithographically-induced strain relaxation on the magnetic domain configuration in microfabricated epitaxially grown Fe81Ga19.

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.

Contributions from coherent and incoherent lattice excitations to ultrafast optical control of magnetic anisotropy of metallic films (2016)
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Kats, V. N., Linnik, T. L., Salasyuk, A. S., Rushforth, A. W., Wang, M., Wadley, P., …Scherbakov, A. V. (2016). Contributions from coherent and incoherent lattice excitations to ultrafast optical control of magnetic anisotropy of metallic films. Proceedings of SPIE, 9835(98351Q), https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238020

Spin-lattice coupling is one of the most prominent interactions mediating response of spin ensemble to ultrafast optical excitation. Here we exploit optically generated coherent and incoherent phonons to drive coherent spin dynamics, i.e. precession,... Read More about Contributions from coherent and incoherent lattice excitations to ultrafast optical control of magnetic anisotropy of metallic films.

Ultrafast changes of magnetic anisotropy driven by laser-generated coherent and noncoherent phonons in metallic films (2016)
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Kats, V., Linnik, T., Salasyuk, A., Rushforth, A., Wang, M., Wadley, P., …Scherbakov, A. (2016). Ultrafast changes of magnetic anisotropy driven by laser-generated coherent and noncoherent phonons in metallic films. Physical Review B, 93(21), Article 214422. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.214422

Ultrafast optical excitation of a metal ferromagnetic film results in a modification of the magnetocrystalline anisotropy and induces the magnetization precession. We consider two main contributions to these processes: an effect of noncoherent phonon... Read More about Ultrafast changes of magnetic anisotropy driven by laser-generated coherent and noncoherent phonons in metallic films.

The UK National Quantum Technologies Hub in sensors and metrology (Keynote Paper) (2016)
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Bongs, K., Boyer, V., Cruise, M., Freise, A., Holynski, M., Hughes, J., …John, P. (2016). The UK National Quantum Technologies Hub in sensors and metrology (Keynote Paper). Proceedings of SPIE, 9900, Article 990009. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232143

The UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Metrology is one of four flagship initiatives in the UK National of Quantum Technology Program. As part of a 20-year vision it translates laboratory demonstrations to deployable practical devices,... Read More about The UK National Quantum Technologies Hub in sensors and metrology (Keynote Paper).

Three-dimensional Heisenberg critical behavior in the highly disordered dilute ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As (2016)
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Wang, M., Marshall, R. A., Edmonds, K. W., Rushforth, A., Campion, R., & Gallagher, B. (2016). Three-dimensional Heisenberg critical behavior in the highly disordered dilute ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As. Physical Review B, 93(18), Article 184417. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.184417

We present detailed studies of critical behavior in the strongly site-disordered dilute ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As. (Ga,Mn)As has a low saturation magnetization and relatively strong magnetocrystalline anisotropy. This combination of prop... Read More about Three-dimensional Heisenberg critical behavior in the highly disordered dilute ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As.

Electrical switching of an antiferromagnet (2016)
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Wadley, P., Howells, B., Železný, J., Andrews, C., Hills, V., Campion, R. P., …Jungwirth, T. (2016). Electrical switching of an antiferromagnet. Science, 351(6273), 587-590. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aab1031

Antiferromagnets are hard to control by external magnetic fields because of the alternating directions of magnetic moments on individual atoms and the resulting zero net magnetization. However, relativistic quantum mechanics allows for generating cur... Read More about Electrical switching of an antiferromagnet.

Interfacial contribution to thickness dependent in-plane anisotropic magnetoresistance (2015)
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Tokaç, M., Wang, M., Jaiswal, S., Rushforth, A. W., Gallagher, B. L., Atkinson, D., & Hindmarch, A. T. (2015). Interfacial contribution to thickness dependent in-plane anisotropic magnetoresistance. AIP Advances, 5(12), 127108. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4937556

We have studied in-plane anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) in cobalt films with overlayers having designed electrically interface transparency. With an electrically opaque cobalt/overlayer interface, the AMR ratio is shown to vary in inverse propor... Read More about Interfacial contribution to thickness dependent in-plane anisotropic magnetoresistance.

Antiferromagnetic structure in tetragonal CuMnAs thin films (2015)
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Wadley, P., Hills, V. A., Shahedkhah, M. R., Edmonds, K. W., Campion, R. P., Novák, V., …Jungwirth, T. (2015). Antiferromagnetic structure in tetragonal CuMnAs thin films. Scientific Reports, 5(1), Article 17079. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep17079

Tetragonal CuMnAs is an antiferromagnetic material with favourable properties for applications in spintronics. Using a combination of neutron diffraction and x-ray magnetic linear dichroism, we determine the spin axis and magnetic structure in tetrag... Read More about Antiferromagnetic structure in tetragonal CuMnAs thin films.

Strain Induced Vortex Core Switching in Planar Magnetostrictive Nanostructures (2015)
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Ostler, T. A., Cuadrado, R., Chantrell, R. W., Rushforth, A. W., & Cavill, S. A. (2015). Strain Induced Vortex Core Switching in Planar Magnetostrictive Nanostructures. Physical Review Letters, 115(6), Article 067202. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.067202

© 2015 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work mu... Read More about Strain Induced Vortex Core Switching in Planar Magnetostrictive Nanostructures.

Magnetic coupling in ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As/(Al,Ga,Mn)As bilayers (2015)
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Wang, M., Wadley, P., Campion, R. P., Rushforth, A. W., Edmonds, K. W., Gallagher, B. L., …Langridge, S. (2015). Magnetic coupling in ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As/(Al,Ga,Mn)As bilayers. Journal of Applied Physics, 118(5), Article 053913. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4928206

We report on a study of ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As/(Al,Ga,Mn)As bilayers using magnetometry and polarized neutron reflectivity (PNR). From depth-resolved characterization of the magnetic structure obtained by PNR, we concluded that the (Ga... Read More about Magnetic coupling in ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As/(Al,Ga,Mn)As bilayers.

Resonant driving of magnetization precession in a ferromagnetic layer by coherent monochromatic phonons (2015)
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Jäger, J., Scherbakov, A., Glavin, B., Salasyuk, A., Campion, R., Rushforth, A., …Bayer, M. (2015). Resonant driving of magnetization precession in a ferromagnetic layer by coherent monochromatic phonons. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 92(2), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.020404

We realize resonant driving of the magnetization precession by monochromatic phonons in a thin ferromagnetic layer embedded into a phononic Fabry-Pérot resonator. A femtosecond laser pulse excites resonant phonon modes of the structure in the 10−40 G... Read More about Resonant driving of magnetization precession in a ferromagnetic layer by coherent monochromatic phonons.

Modification of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and domain wall velocity in Pt/Co/Pt by voltage-induced strain (2015)
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Shepley, P., Rushforth, A., Wang, M., Burnell, G., & Moore, T. (2015). Modification of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and domain wall velocity in Pt/Co/Pt by voltage-induced strain. Scientific Reports, 5, Article 7921. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep07921

The perpendicular magnetic anisotropy Keff, magnetization reversal, and field-driven domain wall velocity in the creep regime are modified in Pt/Co(0.85–1.0 nm)/Pt thin films by strain applied via piezoelectric transducers. Keff, measured by the extr... Read More about Modification of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and domain wall velocity in Pt/Co/Pt by voltage-induced strain.

Comparison of micromagnetic parameters of the ferromagnetic semiconductors (Ga,Mn)(As,P) and (Ga,Mn)As (2014)
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Tesařová, N., Butkovičová, D., Campion, R. P., Rushforth, A. W., Edmonds, K. W., Wadley, P., …Němec, P. (2014). Comparison of micromagnetic parameters of the ferromagnetic semiconductors (Ga,Mn)(As,P) and (Ga,Mn)As. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 90(15), Article 155203. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.90.155203

We report on the determination of micromagnetic parameters of epilayers of the ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As, which has an easy axis in the sample plane, and (Ga,Mn)(As,P), which has an easy axis perpendicular to the sample plane.We use an op... Read More about Comparison of micromagnetic parameters of the ferromagnetic semiconductors (Ga,Mn)(As,P) and (Ga,Mn)As.

Determining Curie temperatures in dilute ferromagnetic semiconductors: high Curie temperature (Ga,Mn)As (2014)
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Wang, M., Marshall, R., Edmonds, K., Rushforth, A., Campion, R., & Gallagher, B. (2014). Determining Curie temperatures in dilute ferromagnetic semiconductors: high Curie temperature (Ga,Mn)As. Applied Physics Letters, 104, Article 132406. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4870521

In this paper, we use simultaneous magnetometry and electrical transport measurements to critically examine ways in which the Curie temperature (TC) values have been determined in studies of dilute magnetic semiconductors. We show that, in sufficient... Read More about Determining Curie temperatures in dilute ferromagnetic semiconductors: high Curie temperature (Ga,Mn)As.

Spin-orbit torque opposing the Oersted torque in ultrathin Co/Pt bilayers (2014)
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Skinner, T., Wang, M., Hindmarch, A., Rushforth, A., Irvine, A., Heiss, D., …Ferguson, A. (in press). Spin-orbit torque opposing the Oersted torque in ultrathin Co/Pt bilayers. Applied Physics Letters, 104(6), Article 062401. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4864399

Current-induced torques in ultrathin Co/Pt bilayers were investigated using an electrically driven ferromagnetic resonance technique. The angle dependence of the resonances, detected by a rectification effect as a voltage, was analysed to determine t... Read More about Spin-orbit torque opposing the Oersted torque in ultrathin Co/Pt bilayers.

Magnetostrictive thin films for microwave spintronics (2013)
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Parkes, D., Shelford, L., Wadley, P., Holy, V., Wang, M., Hindmarch, A., …Rushforth, A. (2013). Magnetostrictive thin films for microwave spintronics. Scientific Reports, 3, Article 2220. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep02220

Multiferroic composite materials, consisting of coupled ferromagnetic and piezoelectric phases, are of great importance in the drive towards creating faster, smaller and more energy efficient devices for information and communications technologies. S... Read More about Magnetostrictive thin films for microwave spintronics.