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Collimated spin wave beam generated by a single layer, spin torque nanocontact

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Author(s)

Mark Hoefer, Thomas J. Silva, M D. Stiles

Abstract

A model of spin-torque-induced magnetization dynamics based on semiclassical spin diffusion theory for a single-layer nanocontact in presented.  The model incorporates effects due to the current-induced Oersted field and predicts the generation of a variety of spatially dependent, coherent, processional magnetics wave structures.  Directionally controllable collimated spin wave beams, vortex spiral waves, and localized standing waves are found to be excited by the interplay of the Oersted field and the orientation of an applied field. These fields act as a spin wave 'corral' around the nanocontact that controls the propagation of spin waves in certain directions.
Citation
Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics)
Volume
77
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

magnetodynamics, micromagnetics, spin torque
Magnetoelectronics and Magnetics

Citation

Hoefer, M. , Silva, T. and Stiles, M. (2008), Collimated spin wave beam generated by a single layer, spin torque nanocontact, Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) (Accessed May 5, 2025)

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Created April 1, 2008, Updated February 19, 2017