1 Preface

2 Personnel

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

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

4 Reports on Experimental Results

A. Magnon Gases and Condensates

4.1 Supercurrent in a room-temperature Bose-Einstein magnon condensate

4.2 Bottleneck accumulation of hybrid bosons in a ferrimagnet

4.3 Parametric excitation of magnons in YIG films at low temperatures

B. Insulator Magnon Spintronics

4.4 Temporal evolution of auto-oscillations in a YIG/Pt microdisc driven by spin-transfer torque induced by the spin Hall effect

4.5 A macro-scaled YIG Majority Gate

4.6 Spin-wave directional coupler

C. Metallic Magnon Spintronics

4.7 Angular dependencies of spin pumping and rectification effects

4.8 Spin pumping in CoFeB/Pt,Ta bilayers

4.9 Spin-wave density of states and microfocussed Brillouin light scattering spectra as a function of magnetic film thickness

4.10 Voltage-controlled magnonic crystal

4.11 A switchable spin-wave signal splitter for magnonic networks

D. Spin Caloric Transport

4.12 Frequency-resolved investigation of the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect

4.13 Auto-oscillations in YIG/Pt nanostructures due to a thermal gradient

E. New Materials and Heusler Compounds

4.14 Thickness dependent properties of the Heusler alloy Co₂ FeAl

4.15 Spin-transfer torque induced spin-wave heating in a microstructured Heusler-Pt waveguide

4.16 Magneto-plasmonic metamaterials

5 Publications

6 Conferences, Workshops, Schools, Seminars

6.1 Conference Organization
6.2 Invited talks
6.3 Contributed talks and posters
6.4 Annual group retreat
6.5 Other meetings and trade fairs
6.6 Awards, Fellowships, and others

Appendix: Impressions from 2016