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Spin waves, the quantized excitations of magnetic order, have been widely explored as low-power information carriers in conventional metallic systems (e.g., NiFe) and insulating materials like yttrium iron garnet (YIG). Recently, magnetic Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have emerged as a novel platform for magnonics, leveraging their unique band structures, strong spin-orbit interactions, and fertile topological behavior. Despite this potential, spin-wave dynamics in magnetic WSMs remain largely uncharted. In this work, this gap is addressed by investigating spin-wave propagation in epitaxial CoMnGa Ge (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) thin films, a prototypical magnetic WSMs system. By changing the ratio between Ga and Ge, how band-structure engineering, specifically tuning the Fermi level into the minority-spin pseudogap is demonstrated, systematically modulates the electronic and magnetic properties to achieve ultralow Gilbert damping (≈1.5 × 10) alongside long spin-wave decay lengths over 100 µm. These results establish a generalizable strategy for optimizing spin-wave media while unlocking a materials platform to probe intertwined charge, spin and orbit, with profound implications for next-generation spintronic and magnonic technologies.
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Adv Mater
August 2025
Fert Beijing Institute, MIIT Key Laboratory of Spintronics, School of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China.
Spin waves, the quantized excitations of magnetic order, have been widely explored as low-power information carriers in conventional metallic systems (e.g., NiFe) and insulating materials like yttrium iron garnet (YIG).
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August 2025
Laboratory of Nanoscale Magnetic Materials and Magnonics, Institute of Materials (IMX), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Spin wave nonreciprocity is crucial for signal processing in magnonic circuits. Domain walls (DWs) have been suggested as channels for nonreciprocal spin waves (magnons) with directional-dependent properties. However, the experimental investigations are challenging due to the low-damping magnetic material with DWs demanded and the nanoscale length scales involved.
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August 2025
SuperSTEM Laboratory, Sci-Tech Daresbury Campus, Daresbury, UK.
The miniaturization of transistors is approaching its limits owing to challenges in heat management and information transfer speed. To overcome these obstacles, emerging technologies such as spintronics are being developed, which make use of the electron's spin as well as its charge. Local phenomena at interfaces or structural defects will greatly influence the efficiency of spin-based devices, making the ability to study spin-wave propagation at the nanoscale and atomic scale a key challenge.
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July 2025
Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Via G. Colombo 81, Milano, 20133, Italy.
In the race toward "beyond 6G" telecommunication platforms, magnonics emerges as a promising solution. To date, however, the requirement for bulky external sources of the magnetic bias field necessary for spin wave propagation has constituted a significant bottleneck, impeding the integration of magnonic devices into RF systems. Here, the first demonstration is presented of a standalone and tunable magnonic device featuring all-electric input and output, fully integrated on a silicon substrate, with a compact footprint of 100 × 150 µm.
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July 2025
Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, ISQI, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 2, 61-614, Poznan, Poland.
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in multilayered nanostructures represent a critical frontier in understanding material behavior at the nanoscale, with profound implications for emerging acoustic and spintronic technologies. In this study, we investigate the influence of the magnetic layer thickness on the propagation of surface acoustic waves in CoFeB-based multilayers. Two approaches to effective medium modelling are considered: treating the entire multilayer as a homogeneous medium and focusing on the region affected by light penetration.
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