M. Benjamin Jungfleisch (University of Delaware)
Date: Mon. November 21st, 2022, 12:45 pm-1:45 pmLocation: Rockefeller 221 (Foldy) & Zoom
Website: https://web.physics.udel.edu/about/directory/faculty/benjamin-jungfleisch
Advances in functional magnonic materials: spin waves in reconfigurable nanostructures and hybrid systems
Benjamin Jungfleisch
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, USA
Magnons, the quantum-mechanical excitations of spin waves, are bosons whose number does not need to be conserved in scattering events. The field of magnonics aims to manipulate the properties of these fundamental magnetic excitations for practical applications. Information transfer and processing based on magnons do not suffer from Joule heating. Hence, magnonics may lead to alternative information technologies with lower power consumption that meet the demands for a carbon-neutral future. Strongly interacting artificial spin systems are magnetic metamaterials where magnetic domains can be mapped onto a spin-lattice model. These systems have emerged as functional material platforms for reconfigurable magnonics, including two-dimensional magnonic crystals, in which the desired magnon band structure is engineered, similar to the approach taken in photonics. Here, I will discuss how the complex behavior of magnons in strongly-interacting nanomagnetic arrays can be manipulated through an interplay between material properties, the geometrical arrangement of patterned ferromagnetic nanostructures, and the reconfigurability of their magnetization state.
Host: Shulei Zhang