Single-shot electrical detection of short-wavelength magnon pulse transmission in a magnonic thin-film waveguide

Abstract The advance of magnon spintronics requires understanding of time-domain magnon pulse transmission in order to develop high-speed information processing protocols. In this work, we demonstrate single-shot electrical detection of narrow-band magnon pulse transmission in a yttrium iron garnet...

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Main Authors: Moojune Song, Jinho Lim, Wei Zhang, Dmytro A. Bozhko, Ralu Divan, Axel Hoffmann, Kab-Jin Kim, Valentine Novosad, Yi Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-04-01
Series:npj Spintronics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s44306-025-00072-5
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Summary:Abstract The advance of magnon spintronics requires understanding of time-domain magnon pulse transmission in order to develop high-speed information processing protocols. In this work, we demonstrate single-shot electrical detection of narrow-band magnon pulse transmission in a yttrium iron garnet thin-film delay line. The high signal-to-background ratio of magnon transmission band allows us to directly probe the magnon transmission electrically using a fast oscilloscope and to study its spectral evolution using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) of the time-domain transmitted signal. At elevated input power, we show a magnon transmission reduction and a spectral distortion, which can be understood by the nonlinear magnon excitation in the transmission band defined by the antenna geometry. In addition, we also find that the higher- (lower-) frequency magnon spectral component exhibits a lower (higher) magnon group velocity, showing a dispersion agreeing with the Damon-Eshbach dependence. Our results provide important guidance of magnon pulse engineering for their applications in spin wave computing and coherent magnon information processing.
ISSN:2948-2119