V. S. Tiberkevich

Magnetic nano-oscillator driven by pure spin current

With the advent of pure-spin-current sources, spin-based electronic (spintronic) devices no longer require electrical charge transfer, opening new possibilities for both conducting and insulating spintronic systems. Pure spin currents have been used to suppress noise caused by thermal fluctuations in magnetic nanodevices, amplify propagating magnetization waves, and to reduce the dynamic damping in magnetic films. However, generation of coherent auto-oscillations by pure spin currents has not been achieved so far. Here we demonstrate the generation of single-mode coherent auto-oscillations in a device that combines local injection of a pure spin current with enhanced spin-wave radiation losses. Counterintuitively, radiation losses enable excitation of auto-oscillation, suppressing the nonlinear processes that prevent auto-oscillation by redistributing the energy between different modes. Our devices exhibit auto-oscillations at moderate current densities, at a microwave frequency tunable over a wide range. These findings suggest a new route for the implementation of nanoscale microwave sources for next-generation integrated electronics.

Electric field tunable ferrite-ferroelectric hybrid wave microwave resonators: Experiment and theory

The electric field tuning characteristics of a combined microwave resonator based on ferrite-ferroelectric layered structure have been studied in a wide range of bias magnetic fields. The combined ferrite-ferroelectric resonator was composed of two rectangular resonators fabricated from a ceramic barium strontium titanate (BST) slab and a single-crystal yttrium iron garnet (YIG) film. The in-plane dimensions for the YIG and BST resonators were chosen to be equal in order to maximize the electromagnetic coupling between their main modes and reduce spurious influence of their higher order modes. A tuning range of 100MHz for the resonator frequency was realized at 5GHz through the variation of magnetic permeability and dielectric permittivity of the YIG-BST structure. A theory for the hybrid wave excitations, based on a coupled-mode approach, has been developed and provides good description of the data.

Bistability of vortex core dynamics in a single perpendicularly magnetized nanodisk.

Microwave spectroscopy of individual vortex-state magnetic nanodisks in a perpendicular bias magnetic field H is performed using a magnetic resonance force microscope. It reveals the splitting induced by H on the gyrotropic frequency of the vortex core rotation related to the existence of the two stable polarities of the core. This splitting enables spectroscopic detection of the core polarity. The bistability extends up to a large negative (antiparallel to the core) value of the bias magnetic field Hr, at which the core polarity is reversed. The difference between the frequencies of the two stable rotational modes corresponding to each core polarity is proportional to H and to the ratio of the disk thickness to its radius. Simple analytic theory in combination with micromagnetic simulations give a quantitative description of the observed bistable dynamics.

Synchronization of spin Hall nano-oscillators to external microwave signals

Recently, a novel type of spin-torque nano-oscillators driven by pure spin current generated via the spin Hall effect was demonstrated. Here we report the study of the effects of external microwave signals on these oscillators. Our results show that they can be efficiently synchronized by applying a microwave signal at approximately twice the frequency of the auto-oscillation, which opens additional possibilities for the development of novel spintronic devices. We find that the synchronization exhibits a threshold determined by magnetic fluctuations pumped above their thermal level by the spin current, and is significantly influenced by the nonlinear self-localized nature of the auto-oscillatory mode.

Direct detection of magnon spin transport by the inverse spin Hall effect

Conversion of traveling magnons into an electron carried spin current is demonstrated in a time resolved experiment using a spatially separated inductive spin-wave source and an inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) detector. A spin-wave packet is excited in a yttrium-iron garnet waveguide by a microwave signal and is detected 3 mm apart by an attached platinum layer as a delayed ISHE voltage pulse. The delay appears due to the finite spin-wave group velocity and proves the magnon spin transport. The experiment suggests the utilization of spin waves for the information transfer over macroscopic distances in spintronic devices and circuits.

Line shape distortion in a nonlinear auto-oscillator near generation threshold: application to spin-torque nano-oscillators.

The power spectrum of an auto-oscillator with a large frequency nonlinearity in a noisy environment is calculated. The power spectrum becomes strongly non-Lorentzian, broadened, and asymmetric near the generation threshold. A Lorentzian spectrum is recovered far below and far above the threshold, which suggests that line shape distortions provide a signature of the threshold. We show that the developed theory adequately describes the observed behavior of a strongly nonlinear spin-torque nano-oscillator.

Power and linewidth of propagating and localized modes in nanocontact spin-torque oscillators

The integrated power and linewidth of a propagating and a self-localized spin-wave mode excited by spin-polarized current in an obliquely magnetized magnetic nanocontact are studied experimentally ...

Storage-recovery phenomenon in magnonic crystal

The phenomenon of coherent wave trapping and restoration is demonstrated experimentally in a magnonic crystal. Unlike the conventional scheme used in photonics, the trapping occurs not due to the deceleration of the incident wave when it enters the periodic structure but due to excitation of the quasinormal modes of the artificial crystal. This excitation occurs at the group velocity minima of the decelerated wave in narrow frequency regions near the edges of the band gaps of the crystal. The restoration of the traveling wave is implemented by means of phase-sensitive parametric amplification of the stored mode.

Dynamic Origin of Azimuthal Modes Splitting in Vortex-State Magnetic Dots

A spin-wave theory explaining experimentally observed frequency splitting of dynamical spin excitations with azimuthal symmetry of a magnetic dot in a vortex ground state is developed. It is shown that this splitting is a result of the dipolar hybridization of three spin-wave modes of a dot having azimuthal indices |m|=1: two high-frequency azimuthal dipolar modes of the in-plane part of the vortex with indices m = +/-1 and a low-frequency (Goldstone-like) gyrotropic mode, describing translational motion of the vortex core and having index m = +1. The analytically calculated magnitude of the frequency splitting is proportional to the ratio of the dot thickness to its radius and quantitatively agrees with the results of time-resolved Kerr experiments.

Q factor of dual-tunable microwave resonators based on yttrium iron garnet and barium strontium titanate layered structures

Q factor of dual-tunable ferrite-ferroelectric hybrid wave microwave resonator was studied as a function of bias electric voltage U and bias magnetic field H. The resonator consisted of a thin (7μm) ferromagnetic resonator made of a single-crystal yttrium iron garnet film and a dielectric resonator made of relatively thick (500μm) plate of ceramic barium strontium titanate having similar in-plane sizes. A frequency spectrum of the resonator consisted of two hybridized modes: a quasiferromagnetic mode and a quasidielectric mode. Maximum electric tuning band of 5% of the resonance frequency has been observed for H values corresponding to maximum hybridization of the modes. The Q factor of the resonator was varied from 30–300 depending on both U and H. In general, Q factor decreases with increasing level of modes’ hybridization and electric tuning interval. Thus, Q factor and electric tunability are competing characteristics of hybrid ferrite-ferroelectric microwave resonators.