title: Giant nonreciprocal emission of spin waves in Ta/Py bilayers.
abstract: Spin waves are propagating disturbances in the magnetization of magnetic materials. One of their interesting properties is nonreciprocity, exhibiting that their amplitude depends on the magnetization direction. Nonreciprocity in spin waves is of great interest in both fundamental science and applications because it offers an extra knob to control the flow of waves for the technological fields of logics and switch applications. We show a high nonreciprocity in spin waves from Ta/Py bilayer systems with out-of-plane magnetic fields. The nonreciprocity depends on the thickness of Ta underlayer, which is found to induce an interfacial anisotropy. The origin of observed high nonreciprocity is twofold: different polarities of the in-plane magnetization due to different angles of canted out-of-plane anisotropy and the spin pumping effect at the Ta/Py interface. Our findings provide an opportunity to engineer highly efficient, nonreciprocal spin wave-based applications, such as nonreciprocal microwave devices, magnonic logic gates, and information transports.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and National University of Singapore Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, Singapore.
authors.forename: Jae Hyun
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kwon
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and National University of Singapore Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, Singapore.
authors.forename: Jungbum
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and National University of Singapore Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, Singapore.
authors.forename: Praveen
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-8680-4637
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Deorani
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and National University of Singapore Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, Singapore.
authors.forename: Jong Min
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0047, Japan.
authors.forename: Jaivardhan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sinha
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea.; KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea.
authors.forename: Kyung-Jin
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-6269-2266
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0047, Japan.; Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
authors.forename: Masamitsu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and National University of Singapore Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, Singapore.
authors.forename: Hyunsoo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000497:Alloys / Q000737:chemistry*; D008280:Magnetics; D013113:Spin Labels; D013635:Tantalum / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000497:Alloys; D013113:Spin Labels; D013635:Tantalum
keywords: Spin waves; anisotropy; magnetization dynamics; micromagnetics; nonreciprocity; permalloy; spin pumping