Arbeitsgruppe Prof. Hillebrands

Annual Report 2010

Contents

1 Introduction (398 kB)

2 Personnel (1024 kB)

    2.1 Members of the group
    2.2 Visiting scientists, postdoctoral fellows and exchange students
    2.3 Guest seminars
    2.4 Visits of group members at other laboratories
    2.5 Group member photo gallery

3 Methods (700 kB)

    3.1 Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy (BLS)
    3.2 Microwave setups
    3.3 Magneto-optic Kerr effect magnetometry and microscopy (MOKE)
    3.4 Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)

4 Reports on Experimental Results

A. Magnon Gases

4.1Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy of parametrically excited exchange magnons (471 kB)
4.2Parametrical recovery of a spin-wave signal stored in a magnonic crystal (430 kB)
4.3Radiation of caustic beams from a collapsing bullet (650 kB)

B. Magnon Spintronics

4.4Temporal evolution of the inverse spin Hall voltage in a magnetic insulator-nonmagnetic metal structure (465 kB)
4.5Spin wave based information processing by micro- and nanoscale spin-mechatronics (563 kB)
4.6Four-magnon scattering in spin-wave micro-conduits (610 kB)
4.7Near- and far-field excitation of lateral standing spin waves in a magnetic microstripe (553 kB)
4.8Enhancement of the spin pumping efficiency by spin-wave mode selection (549 kB)

C. Magnonic Crystals and Spin Waves in Anisotropic Media

4.9Spin-wave propagation in a microstructured magnonic crystal (470 kB)
4.10Spin-wave tunneling through a mechanical gap (359 kB)
4.11All-linear time reversal and frequency inversion by a dynamic magnonic crystal (913 kB)

D. Dynamics in Nanostructures and Domain Walls

4.12Influence of Vortex-domain walls on the spin-wave spectrum in magnetic stripes (913 kB)
4.13Interference of spin waves in magnetic microstripes (713 kB)
4.14Optical detection of spin transport in non-magnetic metals (666 kB)
4.15Spin-wave propagation in strongly anisotropic monocrystalline iron waveguides (345 kB)
4.16Micromagnetic simulation of linear and nonlinear spin-wave propagation in nano-contact spin-valves (1349 kB)

E. Heusler Compounds and other Magnetic Films

4.17Quadratic magneto-optical Kerr effect on epitaxial Co2MnSi thin films (510 MB)
4.18Magnetic behavior of embedded antiferromagnetic elements at remanence (505 kB)

F. Applied Research and Technology

4.19All optical investigation of the shape anisotropy of individual micron sized Ni80Fe20 elements (677 kB)
4.20Development and characterization of a TMR-based memory system (444 kB)

5 Publications (219 kB)

6 Seminars (441 kB)

    6.1 Conferences
    6.2 Workshops and Schools
    6.3 Meetings and Trade Fairs
    6.4 Invited colloquia
    6.5 Seminars
    6.6 Awards and Fellowships


The annual report may be downloaded as one file Annual Report 2010(14.7 MB)