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
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Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-04-01
Series:npj Spintronics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s44306-025-00072-5
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Wei Zhang
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Ralu Divan
Axel Hoffmann
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Valentine Novosad
Yi Li
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description 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.
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spelling doaj-art-3d821e23462f4b3797b1e8cb3ca72c242025-08-20T01:53:15ZengNature Portfolionpj Spintronics2948-21192025-04-01311710.1038/s44306-025-00072-5Single-shot electrical detection of short-wavelength magnon pulse transmission in a magnonic thin-film waveguideMoojune Song0Jinho Lim1Wei Zhang2Dmytro A. Bozhko3Ralu Divan4Axel Hoffmann5Kab-Jin Kim6Valentine Novosad7Yi Li8Materials Science Division, Argonne National LaboratoryDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Materials Research Laboratory, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of North CarolinaDepartment of Physics and Energy Science, University of Colorado Colorado SpringsCenter for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National LaboratoryDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Materials Research Laboratory, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignDepartment of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyMaterials Science Division, Argonne National LaboratoryMaterials Science Division, Argonne National LaboratoryAbstract 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.https://doi.org/10.1038/s44306-025-00072-5
spellingShingle Moojune Song
Jinho Lim
Wei Zhang
Dmytro A. Bozhko
Ralu Divan
Axel Hoffmann
Kab-Jin Kim
Valentine Novosad
Yi Li
Single-shot electrical detection of short-wavelength magnon pulse transmission in a magnonic thin-film waveguide
npj Spintronics
title Single-shot electrical detection of short-wavelength magnon pulse transmission in a magnonic thin-film waveguide
title_full Single-shot electrical detection of short-wavelength magnon pulse transmission in a magnonic thin-film waveguide
title_fullStr Single-shot electrical detection of short-wavelength magnon pulse transmission in a magnonic thin-film waveguide
title_full_unstemmed Single-shot electrical detection of short-wavelength magnon pulse transmission in a magnonic thin-film waveguide
title_short Single-shot electrical detection of short-wavelength magnon pulse transmission in a magnonic thin-film waveguide
title_sort single shot electrical detection of short wavelength magnon pulse transmission in a magnonic thin film waveguide
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s44306-025-00072-5
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