ACS Nano
ACS Nano
5 years ago

Efficient Modulation of Spin Waves in Two-Dimensional Octagonal Magnonic Crystal

Efficient Modulation of Spin Waves in Two-Dimensional Octagonal Magnonic Crystal
YoshiChika Otani, Anjan Barman, Saswati Barman, Samiran Choudhury
Efficient tunability of magnonic spectra is demonstrated in two-dimensional ferromagnetic antidot lattices with different lattice constants arranged in the octagonal lattice which can be considered as quasi-periodic magnonic crystals due to the presence of broken translational symmetry. The precessional dynamics of these samples are investigated in the frequency domain with the help of broadband ferromagnetic resonance spectrometer. A rich variation in the spin wave spectra is observed with the variation of lattice constant as well as the strength and orientation of the bias magnetic field. A broad band of spin wave modes are observed for the denser array, which finally converges to two spin wave modes for the sparsest one. In addition to this, the most intense spin wave frequency shows an 8-fold anisotropy with a superposition of weak 4- and 2-fold anisotropy, which arises due to the angular variation of the magnetostatic field distribution at different regions of the octagonal lattice. Micromagnetic simulations qualitatively reproduce the experimentally observed modes, and the simulated mode profiles reveal the presence of different types of extended and quantized standing spin wave modes in these samples. The observations are important for the tunable and anisotropic propagation of spin waves in magnonic crystal based devices.

Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b02872

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b02872

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