Deviation from exponential decay for spin waves excited with a coplanar waveguide antenna

Daniel R. Birt; Kyongmo An; Maxim Tsoi; Shingo Tamaru; David Ricketts; Kin L. Wong; Pedram Khalili Amiri; Kang L. Wang; Xiaoqin Li

doi:10.1063/1.4772798

Deviation from exponential decay for spin waves excited with a coplanar waveguide antenna

Daniel R. Birt, Kyongmo An, Maxim Tsoi, Shingo Tamaru, David Ricketts, Kin L. Wong, Pedram Khalili Amiri, Kang L. Wang, Xiaoqin Li

College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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We have investigated the propagation of surface spin waves in a Permalloy thin film excited by an asymmetric coplanar antenna. A surprising oscillatory behavior superimposed on the exponential decay is observed in the spin wave intensity mapped with the micro-Brillouin light scattering technique. The oscillations can be modeled as the interference between a propagating spin wave and a background magnetization with spatially uniform phase. We use a simple closed-form equation that includes both contributions to fit our experimental results. From the fit results, we extract the spin wave propagation length and the spin wave vector in a frequency range limited by the antenna bandwidth.

Original language	English
Article number	252409
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	101
Issue number	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4772798
Publication status	Published - 2012 Dec 17

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Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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