Physical origin and generic control of magnonic band gaps of dipole-exchange spin waves in width-modulated nanostrip waveguides
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Published on: November 21, 2019
Ki-Suk Lee1, Dong-Soo Han, Sang-Koog Kim
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
We report, for the first time, on a novel planar structure of magnonic-crystal waveguides, made of a single magnetic material, in which the allowed and forbidden bands of propagating dipole-exchange spin waves can be manipulated by the periodic modulation of different widths in thin-film nanostrips. The origin of the presence of several magnonic wide band gaps and the crucial parameters for controlling those band gaps of the order of approximately 10 GHz are found by micromagnetic numerical and analytical calculations. This work can offer a route to the potential application to broadband spin wave filters in the gigahertz frequency range.
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