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Soft magnetic thin films and multilayered structures deposited onto flexible substrates are attracting more attention for variety of technological applications [1,2]. Flexible electronics and magnetic field sensors require fabrication of complex elements which can operate using different magnetic effects: magnetoelastic effect, magnetoresistance and magnetoimpedance (MI) among others [3,4]. Low weight, high adaptability in multipurpose devices combining more than one functional component may compensate the lower magnetic characteristics of thin films deposited onto flexible in comparison with traditional rigid substrates. One of rapidly developing areas of flexible MI specialized detectors is MI biosensing [5]. It was shown earlier that high sensitivities with respect to applied magnetic field can be achieved for Fe&lt;sub&gt;19&lt;/sub&gt;Ni&lt;sub&gt;81&lt;/sub&gt;/Ti-based sensitive elements fabricated onto cyclo olefin copolymer (COC) flexible transparent substrates widely used in microfluidic systems [3,5]. Transparency is an additional request for microfluidic systems. For successful biosensing weak fields should be detected at the level at least micro Oersteds. This requires special environments without electronic interferences and random magnetic fields. We therefore propose to use COC substrates and the same magnetic material Fe&lt;sub&gt;19&lt;/sub&gt;Ni&lt;sub&gt;81 &lt;/sub&gt;both as functional magnetic layers of sensitive element of MI biosensor and shielding material preventing undesirable electronic interferences. In this work the structure, transparency, static magnetic properties and microwave absorption of Fe&lt;sub&gt;19&lt;/sub&gt;Ni&lt;sub&gt;81 &lt;/sub&gt;thin films deposited onto COC substrates were studied as a function of the permalloy layer thickness.&lt;br/&gt;Thin films of the thicknesses of 12, 20, 25 and 80 nm were deposited by magnetron sputtering technique onto COC substrates (Zeonor ZF14 100 μm thick commercial film) at room temperature using alloyed FeNi target for deposition. Background pressure was 3×10&lt;sup&gt;-7&lt;/sup&gt; mbar and the argon gas pressure during sputtering was 3.8×10&lt;sup&gt;-3&lt;/sup&gt; mbar. The deposition rate of 28 nm/min for was defined by special calibration of the system. The thicknesses of the films were determined by the deposition time and calculated using the deposition rate. The microstructure was analyzed by XRD technique with a PHILIPSX’PERT PRO diffractometer (working parameters are 40 kV and 40 mA) employing Cu-Kα radiation (λ = 1.5418 Å). The magnetic hysteresis loops were measured by a vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). Microwave properties were studied at a fixed frequency. Gunn diode microwave transmitter was employed as a microwave radiation source. It consists of the gun diode in 10.525 GHz cavity, a microwave horn to direct the output and 18 cm stand to reduce reflections. Transmitter provides coherent linearly polarized along the axis of the diode microwave output at a wavelength of 2.85 cm. In order to characterize the properties of FeNi films, the transmission and reflection properties were studied.&lt;br/&gt;XRD spectra for FeNi films showed the presence of intensive maximum at 2θ » 44° being (111) reflection. Figure 1 shows the results of the VSM measurements in-plane magnetic hysteresis loops of FeNi thin films with different thickness (t). As to expect the total magnetic moment (m) is increased with the increase of the film thickness. The lowest coercivity close to 6 Oe was observed for the most thick film of 80 nm. This value is consistent with the coercivities of permalloy films obtained for flexible substrates in previous studies. In the other cases, the coercivities were increased (being below 19 Oe) most probably due to special contribution of the surface roughness, which is higher for COC substrate in comparison with standard rigid substrates. As the first step of the microwave studies, the output voltage signal of the receiver was measured for head-to-head aligned configuration of the microwave transmitter and receiver in as a function of the distance (r) between them in two cases. In the first one no intermediate substances between the transmitter and receiver was allowed. In the second case COC 100 μm thick top was covering the horn open plane being parallel to the axis of the diode. It was confirmed that for the frequency of 10.525 GHz COC substrates contributions to the microwave absorption can be neglected: both output voltages V(1/r) were linear and showing the same slope and regression. As the next step, the power absorption was measured in the same configuration for all thin films deposited onto COC substrates (Figure 2). One can clearly see that 80 nm thin FeNi film, which still has transparency of about 10% insures a complete protection with respect to the component of microwave signal polarized along the diode axis. It worse mentioning that even 12 nm permalloy film is almost as effective as 80 nm film but having much higher transparency. Obtained results indicate that Fe&lt;sub&gt;19&lt;/sub&gt;Ni&lt;sub&gt;81&lt;/sub&gt; films deposited onto COC substrates can be used as effective shielding materials in complex multipurpose devises.&lt;br/&gt;This work was supported by the RSF grant 18-19-00090. Selected measurements were performed at SGIker services UPV-EHU.

**References:**

[1] C.A. Grimes, IEEE Trans. Magn. 31(6) (1995) 4109.&lt;br/&gt;[2] M. Melzer, D. Makarov, A. Calvimontes, D. Karnaushenko, S. Baunack, R. Kaltofen, Y.F. Mei, O.G. Schmid, Nano Lett.11(2011) 2522.&lt;br/&gt;[3] E. Fernández, A.V. Svalov, A. García-Arribas, J. Feuchtwanger, J. M. Barandiaran, G.V. Kurlyandskaya, J. Nanosci. Nanotech. 12 (2012) 7496.&lt;br/&gt;[4] K. Agra, F. Bohn, T.J.A. Mori, G.L. Callegari, L.S. Dorneles, M.A. Correa, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 420 (2016) 81.&lt;br/&gt;[5] A. García-Arribas, F. Martínez, E. Fernández, I. Ozaeta, G.V. Kurlyandskaya, A.V. Svalov, J. Berganzo, J.M. Barandiaran, Sens. Act. A 172 (2011) 103.

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VSM hysteresis loops of FeNi films with different thicknesses t deposited onto flexible COC substrates: m is a total magnetic moment of the sample.

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Output voltage dependence of the microwave receiver on the thickness of FeNi film deposited onto flexible COC substrates with an exponential decay fit. Inset shows the same output voltages in a logarithmic scale.

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Soft magnetic thin films and multilayered structures deposited onto flexible substrates are attracting more attention for variety of technological applications [1,2]. Flexible electronics and magnetic field sensors require fabrication of complex elements which can operate using different magnetic effects: magnetoelastic effect, magnetoresistance and magnetoimpedance (MI) among others [3,4]. Low weight, high adaptability in multipurpose devices combining more than one functional component may compensate the lower magnetic characteristics of thin films deposited onto flexible in comparison with traditional rigid substrates. One of rapidly developing areas of flexible MI specialized detectors is MI biosensing [5]. It was shown earlier that high sensitivities with respect to applied magnetic field can be achieved for Fe19Ni81/Ti-based sensitive elements fabricated onto cyclo olefin copolymer (COC) flexible transparent substrates widely used in microfluidic systems [3,5]. Transparency is an additional request for microfluidic systems. For successful biosensing weak fields should be detected at the level at least micro Oersteds. This requires special environments without electronic interferences and random magnetic fields. We therefore propose to use COC substrates and the same magnetic material Fe19Ni81 both as functional magnetic layers of sensitive element of MI biosensor and shielding material preventing undesirable electronic interferences. In this work the structure, transparency, static magnetic properties and microwave absorption of Fe19Ni81 thin films deposited onto COC substrates were studied as a function of the permalloy layer thickness. Thin films of the thicknesses of 12, 20, 25 and 80 nm were deposited by magnetron sputtering technique onto COC substrates (Zeonor ZF14 100 μm thick commercial film) at room temperature using alloyed FeNi target for deposition. Background pressure was 3×10-7 mbar and the argon gas pressure during sputtering was 3.8×10-3 mbar. The deposition rate of 28 nm/min for was defined by special calibration of the system. The thicknesses of the films were determined by the deposition time and calculated using the deposition rate. The microstructure was analyzed by XRD technique with a PHILIPSX’PERT PRO diffractometer (working parameters are 40 kV and 40 mA) employing Cu-Kα radiation (λ = 1.5418 Å). The magnetic hysteresis loops were measured by a vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). Microwave properties were studied at a fixed frequency. Gunn diode microwave transmitter was employed as a microwave radiation source. It consists of the gun diode in 10.525 GHz cavity, a microwave horn to direct the output and 18 cm stand to reduce reflections. Transmitter provides coherent linearly polarized along the axis of the diode microwave output at a wavelength of 2.85 cm. In order to characterize the properties of FeNi films, the transmission and reflection properties were studied. XRD spectra for FeNi films showed the presence of intensive maximum at 2θ » 44° being (111) reflection. Figure 1 shows the results of the VSM measurements in-plane magnetic hysteresis loops of FeNi thin films with different thickness (t). As to expect the total magnetic moment (m) is increased with the increase of the film thickness. The lowest coercivity close to 6 Oe was observed for the most thick film of 80 nm. This value is consistent with the coercivities of permalloy films obtained for flexible substrates in previous studies. In the other cases, the coercivities were increased (being below 19 Oe) most probably due to special contribution of the surface roughness, which is higher for COC substrate in comparison with standard rigid substrates. As the first step of the microwave studies, the output voltage signal of the receiver was measured for head-to-head aligned configuration of the microwave transmitter and receiver in as a function of the distance (r) between them in two cases. In the first one no intermediate substances between the transmitter and receiver was allowed. In the second case COC 100 μm thick top was covering the horn open plane being parallel to the axis of the diode. It was confirmed that for the frequency of 10.525 GHz COC substrates contributions to the microwave absorption can be neglected: both output voltages V(1/r) were linear and showing the same slope and regression. As the next step, the power absorption was measured in the same configuration for all thin films deposited onto COC substrates (Figure 2). One can clearly see that 80 nm thin FeNi film, which still has transparency of about 10% insures a complete protection with respect to the component of microwave signal polarized along the diode axis. It worse mentioning that even 12 nm permalloy film is almost as effective as 80 nm film but having much higher transparency. Obtained results indicate that Fe19Ni81 films deposited onto COC substrates can be used as effective shielding materials in complex multipurpose devises. This work was supported by the RSF grant 18-19-00090. Selected measurements were performed at SGIker services UPV-EHU.

**References:**

[1] C.A. Grimes, IEEE Trans. Magn. 31(6) (1995) 4109. [2] M. Melzer, D. Makarov, A. Calvimontes, D. Karnaushenko, S. Baunack, R. Kaltofen, Y.F. Mei, O.G. Schmid, Nano Lett.11(2011) 2522. [3] E. Fernández, A.V. Svalov, A. García-Arribas, J. Feuchtwanger, J. M. Barandiaran, G.V. Kurlyandskaya, J. Nanosci. Nanotech. 12 (2012) 7496. [4] K. Agra, F. Bohn, T.J.A. Mori, G.L. Callegari, L.S. Dorneles, M.A. Correa, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 420 (2016) 81. [5] A. García-Arribas, F. Martínez, E. Fernández, I. Ozaeta, G.V. Kurlyandskaya, A.V. Svalov, J. Berganzo, J.M. Barandiaran, Sens. Act. A 172 (2011) 103.

**Images:**

![](https://assets.underline.io/uploads/markdown_image/1/image/2f0b8852d5521174ee44fa085aa69ebf.jpg)
VSM hysteresis loops of FeNi films with different thicknesses t deposited onto flexible COC substrates: m is a total magnetic moment of the sample.

![](https://assets.underline.io/uploads/markdown_image/1/image/81c560ca697d66ba21704e790bb22bd4.jpg)
Output voltage dependence of the microwave receiver on the thickness of FeNi film deposited onto flexible COC substrates with an exponential decay fit. Inset shows the same output voltages in a logarithmic scale.

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As one type magnetization dynamics excitations in magnetic materials, spin waves are providing a promising candidate as information carriers in the future spintronic logic and computing circuits and systems. Several concepts and building block for spin wave-based devices have been developed in recent years, including magnonic crystals, logic gates, transistor, multiplexers and wake-up receiver. The excitation and manipulation of magnetization dynamics is an essential part of all these spin wave-based devices. Electrical methods of magnetization dynamic excitation are conventionally used the magnetic field induced by a microwave antenna or spin torque oscillation induced by spin-polarized currents. However, these methods are generally introducing high Ohmic energy consumption due to the high current density, which contrary to the requirement for energy efficient spintronic devices. Furthermore, for practical applications, it is very desirable to use devices without permanent magnetic field bias. Motivated by these shortcoming, alternative approaches for the excitation of magnetization dynamics have been explored recently, include the effect of the voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy, the elastic waves and strain pulse. A more comprehensive investigation of magnetization dynamics and spin wave excitation in nanoscale multiferroic heterostructures with perpendicular anisotropy (PMA) and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (i-DMI) has not yet been attempted. In this work, by means of a micromagnetic simulation combined with electromechanical to explore a promising way to excitation spin wave using voltage-controlled strain in a nanoscale multiferroic heterostructures with PMA and i-DMI. In this heterostructure, the excitation area is setting at the center of ferromagnetic nanostrip with an electrode underneath which can easily get a biaxial isotropy in-plane strain (Fig.1(a)). The relaxed profiles of the out-of-plane magnetization components along the center width direction with different DMI coefficient are demonstrated in Fig. 1(b). A SinC strain field pulse is applied locally at the excitation region to excite magnetization dynamics with a wide frequency range. The frequency spectra (Fig.1(c)) clear shown that two distinct resonance peaks around at 4 GHz and 13 GHz. It is worth mentioning, that all the spin dynamics excited by the strain fields are symmetric within the in-plane axis direction, that means only the odd values node are excited. The spin wave frequency spectra in terms of frequency versus propagation distance are obtained by an FFT of δmx on the time scales. And the spin wave transmission characteristics (Fig.1(d)) are obtained by probing the spectra intensity in x position 200 nm and 1000 nm, respectively. The propagation characteristics of spin wave studied in detail for different frequency, for example, the spin wave profiles generated and transferred by biaxial isotropy in-plane strain at 4 GHz, 4.5 GHz and 13 GHz are shown in Fig. 2(a)-(c). The dynamic magnetization profiles show that the spin wave phases front of these modes are perpendicular to the propagation direction. The dispersion characteristics in terms of the width position along the y direction versus wave vector are obtained by a two-dimensional (2D) FFT of magnetization components δmx. The results are shown in Fig. 2(d)-(f). At 4 GHz and 4.5 GHz, the width mode n=1 with a wave vectors kx=0.015 rad/nm and kx=0.037 rad/nm are present, respectively. Note, the mode n=0 with an extremely small amplitude is also observer. At 13 GHz, both n=1 and high order n=3 modes are present with wave vector kx=0.164 rad/nm and kx=0.059 rad/nm, respectively. To summarize, we analyzed the excitation of magnetization dynamics and spin waves via the magnetoelastic effect by applying locally biaxial isotropy in-plane strains, and we studied their propagation characteristics in non-uniformly magnetized ferromagnet waveguides induced by i-DMI. Our works show the potential of using strain with the presence of i-DMI as perspective for integrating spin waves emitter into future logic or computing devices and hinting at possible technological applications in strain controlled spintronic systems.

**References:**

1. J. Chen, J. Hu and H. Yu, iScience, 23, 101153 (2020). 2. R. Verba, M. Carpentieri and G. Finocchio, et al., Sci Rep, 6, 25018 (2016). 3. Q. Wang, T. Brächer and M. Mohseni, et al., Appl. Phys. Lett., 115, 092401 (2019). 4. A. V. Chumak, P. Pirro and A. A. Serga, et al., Appl. Phys. Lett., 95, 262508 (2009). 5. S. Klingler, P. Pirro and T. Brächer, et al., Appl. Phys. Lett., 106, 212406 (2015). 6. M. á. Kostylev, A. Serga and T. Schneider, et al., Appl. Phys. Lett., 87, 153501 (2005). 7. F. Macia, F. C. Hoppensteadt and A. D. Kent, Nanotechnology, 25, 045303 (2014). 8. R. Verba, M. Carpentieri and G. Finocchio, et al, Phys. Rev. Appl., 7 (2017).

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Fig. 1 (a) Schematic view of the investigated multiferroic heterostructures, the yellow color indicates the region where strain field is applied. (b) Equilibrium magnetization components mz across the width direction of nanostrip. (c) The spin dynamic characteristics obtained by integrating the perturbation over the excitation area. (d) The frequency spectra obtained from an FFT of the temporal evolution of perturbation magnetization in space.

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Fig.2 (a)-(c) Snapshots of the magnetization distribution pattern for different excitation frequency: 4 GHz, 4.5 GHz and 13 GHz, respectively. (d)-(e) Spin wave wavenumber distribution across the ferromagnet strip width computed by 2D FFT of the magnetization component δmx.

 Magnetization Dynamics and Spin Wave Excitation in Strain-mediated Multiferroic Heterostructures with the Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction

Fano resonances generally appears in the interaction of subsystems with a continuous (continuum) and discrete spectrum of energy states and also observed in many physical systems: quantum and nanoscale [1], optical and microwave [2], plasmonic [3] . Systems of coupled Fano resonators [4], nonlinear effects [5], bistable and nonreciprocal properties are also being investigated. One of the promising approaches for the generation, transmission and processing of information signals is using spin waves (SW) as information carriers. By analogy with electronics, this area is called “magnonics” [6,7]. SWs characteristics can be modulated (amplitude, phase, frequency) and can propagate in waveguides based on various films of magnetically ordered materials. Currently, yttrium-iron garnet (YIG) is the magnetic material with the lowest losses (the smallest ferromagnetic resonance line width). Potentially, spin-wave excitations, due to their low damping in coupled waveguide-resonator systems, can also exhibit Fano resonances. However, unlike optical systems, systems based on magnetic materials have the following feature: the dependence of the equilibrium state of magnetic moments and, therefore, internal static magnetic fields on the geometric dimensions and shape of magnetic subsystems (waveguides and resonators), the magnitude and direction of the external magnetic field, anisotropy fields, etc. Here we study the characteristics of the Fano resonance in a coupled system of lateral magnonic stripes with piezoelectric layer and resonators depending on the geometric parameters of the systems, the magnitude of the coupling between them, and the electric field of the piezoelectric layer. Using micromagnetic simulation of spin-wave excitations and numerical integration of the coupled wave equation system, the transfer characteristics of the lateral system and the Fano resonance parameters are calculated. Micromagnetic modeling was carried out for the structure (see Fig. 1) based on a YIG film with a thickness of 10 μm and a saturation magnetization of 4πM0 = 1750 G. The structure consists of two tappered planar magnonic stripes with a widths w1 = 2500 μm and w2 = 200 μm. A system of resonators with a width of “w2” and a length of 500 μm is located between the stripes. A 200 μm-thick lead zirconate titanate (PZT) is used as a piezoelectric material. A 1 μm -thick titanium electrode is placed ("GND" in Fig. 1) on a top side of PZT, which does not have a significant effect on the propagation of SW in magnetic stripes. On the bottom side of PZT a 100 nm-thick titanium electrode. The entire structure is placed in an external uniform magnetic field, H0 = 1200 Oe, directed along the Z axis, which ensures efficient excitation of magnetostatic surface waves. To reduce parasitic SW reflections from the boundaries of microwave guides, layers (0 &lt;x &lt;0.6 mm and 6.0 &lt;x &lt;6.6 mm) with exponentially increasing dissipation parameters (ABL) were introduced. The features of exhibiting constructive and destructive interference of SWs under the conditions of Fano resonance are shown. An effective tuning of the strain of the piezoelectric layer and the effect of magnetostriction in lateral structure. This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation Grant (#20-79-10191).

**References:**

[1] A.E. Miroshnichenko, S. Flach, Yu.S. Kivshar, Rev. Mod. Phys., Vol. 82, P. 2257—2298 (2010). [2] M. Galli, S. L. Portalupi, M. Belotti, L.C. Andreani, L. O’Faolain, and T. F. Krauss, Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 94, P. 10–13 (2009). [3] R. Ortuno, M. Cortijo, A. Martinez, J. Opt., Vol. 19, P. 025003 (2017). [4] B. Djafari-Rouhani, H. Al-Wahsh, A. Akjouj and L. Dobrzynski, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 303, P. 012017 (2011). [5] M. Kroner, A. O. Govorov, S. Remi, B. Biedermann, S. Seidl, A. Badolato, P. M. Petroff, W. Zhang, R. Barbour, B. D. Gerardot, R. J. Warburton, K. Karrai, Nature, Vol. 451, P. 311–314 (2008). [6] A.A. Grachev, S.E. Sheshukova, S.A. Nikitov, A.V. Sadovnikov, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Vol. 515, P. 167302 (2020). [7] A.V. Sadovnikov, A.A. Grachev, A.A. Serdobintsev, S.E. Sheshukova, S.S. Yankin, S.A. Nikitov, IEEE Magnetics Letters. Vol. 10. 5506405 (2019).

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 Voltage-controlled Fano resonances in irregular magnonic structure

Investigations of the transfer of spin momentum in planar and multilayer magnetic structures make it possible to reveal that spin waves (SW) could potentially be used as data carriers in low energy computing devices [1]. Properties of spin-wave transport in three-dimensional (3D) magnonic networks [2] are determined by the dipole and exchange interactions and can change significantly with a change in the parameters of the medium, such as variation in the direction and magnitude of the equilibrium magnetization caused by elastic deformations, modification of substrate properties by the laser light [3]. The present work is devoted to the development of the ideas of the directed branching of SW in 3D structures. In this work, we propose a magnonic structure with the possibility of spin-wave transport in both the lateral and vertical directions. In this case, the effects of collimation of a spin-wave beam in arrays of magnonic-crystal structures make it possible to use the periodic properties of the medium to control the SW propagation length at frequencies near the non-transmission band of an individual magnonic crystal. For this, a system of lateral spin-waveguide channels separated by a periodic structure was fabricated on the surface of each film. Fig. 1 (a) shows a schematic view from above of each single magnonic crystal structure (YIG1 and YIG2) which are placed one above the other. Films of yttrium iron garnet (YIG), which are grown on a gallium-gadolinium garnet (GGG) substrate, were separated by a vertical gap of g in the direction of the z axis. A system of waveguides (S1 , S2 , S3 and S4 ) of equal width w = 200 µm is formed from the YIG film, S1 and S2 are oriented parallel to each other, S3 and S4 were placed above them in such a way that the resulting structure was two systems of lateral stripes S1 - S2 and S3 - S4. The thickness of the YIG films for both structures was t = 10 µm. The length of the coupling area is L=4 mm (see Fig.1a). Thus one can consider the single MCS as a lateral array of microwave guides separated by periodic sequence of grooves with a length in y-direction a = 100 µm period of D = 200 µm in the direction of the y axis on the surface of YIG films. The groove width along the x axis is d = 50 µm, the groove thickness in the direction of the z axis was s = 1 µm. Fig.1(b) shows a schematic diagram of the structure and demonstrates the geometric dimensions including the primitive cell of a magnonic crystal (MC) (on the right part of Fig. 1b). The experimental study was performed, with samples of a magnonic-crystal structure based on thin films of yttrium iron garnet that were made by laser scribing based on a precision laser cutting system based on a fiber laser ”MiniMarker2-20A4”. In the input section of the lower film S1 , there is a microstrip antenna with a width of 30 µm, to which a microwave signal was applied to efficiently excite the MSSW [34]. The structure was placed in an external magnetic field H0 =1200 Oe, as in the numerical simulation. Input and output transducers are attached to the YIG film (see Fig. 1(a)) at a distance of 4 mm from each other. The uniform static magnetic field H0 = 1200 Oe was applied in the plane of the waveguide along the x-direction for the effective excitation of the guided MSSW. Transmission and dispersion of MSSW were experimentally measured using PNA-X Keysight Vector Network Analyzer(VNA). First, the measurement of the transmission response for the one layer MCS was performed. The solid line in Fig. 5(a) shows the measured MSSW intensity for the MCS. A well pronounced forbidden bands where spin waves are not allowed to propagate is clearly observed for the frequencies of f1 = 5.1 GHz and f2 = 5.193 GHz. These two gaps in the magnetostatic suface waves spectra are typical for the system of coupled magnonic crystal, where two gaps are formed at the Bragg resonance condition for the symmetric and anti-symmetric modes. For single MCS structure we use the formalism where we can also consider the two coupled magnonic crystal waveguides separated by the array of grooves. In this case the formation of two gaps in spin-wave spectra can be explained also with the symmetric and antisymmetric modes as in Ref. [4]. Next we measure coupled MCS place one above the other with the gap of g = 80 µm. In the present structure we have four eigenmodes and each of them can satisfy the Bragg condition forming the band gaps. The microwave measurement of the fabricated two layer MCS shows that one more forbidden frequency band has been added to the two bandgaps at the frequency f3 = 5.15 GHz (see Fig. 5(a)). From the experimentally measured phase shift for the MSSW, the dispersion characteristic of MC was obtained (fig.5(b)). The dispersion measurement reveals that the frequency f3 corresponds to the Bragg wavnumber kB . This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research under Project 19-37-90079

**References:**

1. V. V. Kruglyak, S. O. Demokritov, D. Grundler, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 43 (2010) 264001. 2. E. Beginin, D. Kalyabin, P. Popov, A. Sadovnikov, A. Sharaevskaya, A. Stognij, S. Nikitov, “3D Magnonic Crystals” In G. Gubbiotti (Eds) “Three-Dimensional Magnonics”, Jenny Stanford Publishing, 2019. 3. A. V. Sadovnikov, E. N. Beginin, S. E. Sheshukova, Y. P. Sharaevskii, A. I. Stognij, N. N. Novitski, V. K. Sakharov, Y. V. Khivintsev, S. A. Nikitov, Route toward semiconductor magnonics: Light-induced spin-wave nonreciprocity in a yig/gaas structure, Phys. Rev. B 99 (2019) 054424. 4. M. Morozova, A. Y. Sharaevskaya, A. Sadovnikov, S. Grishin, D. Romanenko, E. Beginin, Y. Sharaevskii, S. Nikitov, Band gap formation and control in coupled periodic ferromagnetic structures, Journal of Applied Physics 120 (2016) 223901.

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(a)Concept of the bilayer magnonic crystal structure;

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(a) transmission characteristics, measured with signal network analyzer for one MCS and two layer of MCS;(b)experimentally measured dispersion for one layer MCS and two layer of MC

 Collimated spin-wave beams in a three-dimensional multilayer magnon-crystal arrays near the bandgap frequencies

With the development of technologies for the manufacture of magnetic structures, within the framework of the direction of magnonics, the mechanisms and methods of excitation and control of spin waves (SW) in magnetic materials are being actively studied [1, 2]. One of the key problems in the development of spin-wave devices is associated with the damping of spin waves [3]. A record low level of SW attenuation can be achieved when using films of yttrium iron garnet (YIG) [3]. At the same time, in YIG, it is possible to excite and propagate SWs with a wavelength from tens of nanometers to a few millimeters [2]. Improvement of the technological process of manufacturing thin YIG films made it possible to create multilevel micro- and nanostructures for the implementation of magnon networks [4], on the basis of which it is proposed to create an element base for information signal processing devices [5-6]. The use of the effects of spin-wave interference and amplitude-phase coding is a promising way to create an magnon networks for processing information signals in a wide frequency range [7]. The paper proposes and investigates a variant of vertical spin-wave transport based on orthogonally coupled magnetic microwave guides. With the help of numerical and experimental studies, the features of the transmission of the spin-wave signal at orthogonal coupling of the waveguide sections have been revealed. To describe the physical processes causing the propagation of a spin-wave signal in an irregular structure, we used the method of numerical micromagnetic simulations based on a numerical solution of the Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation [8]. Magnetic films are formed from yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) waveguides (Fig. 1) with thickness of t = 10 µm, l1 = l1 = 2500 µm and width w = 500 µm. The exchange constant of the YIG film was assumed to be equal Aex = 3.614-12 J/m and the saturation magnetization M0 = 1.395 A/m. To reduce SW reflections from the boundaries of waveguides in the numerical simulation, regions ABL (absorbing boundary layers) with an exponentially increasing dissipation parameter. Fig.2a shows the results of calculating the spectrum of the spin-wave signal in orthogonal magnonic waveguide. The drop in signal power at the output by 5 dB is associated with attenuation in the YIG For experimentally investigation were fabricated by laser scribing a continuous YIG film epitaxially grown on a substrate of gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG). The waveguides were magnetized by a uniform field H0 = 1150 Oe, directed along the short symmetry axis of the waveguides for efficient excitation of a magnetostatic surface spin wave. Spin wave transmission characteristics were acquired using two 30 µm wide microstrip antennas positioned on either end of the waveguides. The input antenna’s dynamic magnetic field couples to the YIG’s magnetization, exciting spin waves propagating along the waveguide. The efficiency of spin wave propagation was measured using a vector-network-analyzer. The results from the characterization of the waveguides are shown in Fig.2b. Fig. 2c shows the result of calculating the effective wavenumbers in the frequency range of the MSSW excitation. It can be seen that the phase incursion and the effective wavenumber begin to increase with increasing frequency, which corresponds to the case of MSSW. Proposed spin-wave transport in orthogonal vertical junction makes it possible to implement functional processing of information signals (frequency filtering and phase correction) during signal transmission in a wide frequency range. This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation Grant (#20-79-10191).

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[1] V.V. Kruglyak, S.O. Demokritov, D. Grundler, J.Phys. D: Appl. Phys., Vol.43, p.264001 (2010) [2] A.V. Chumak, V.I. Vasyuchka, A.A. Serga, Nature Physics., Vol.11, p.453. [3] A.G. Gurevich, G.A. Melkov, Magnetization Oscillations and Waves, CRC-Press, London, New York. (1996) [4] A.A. Martyshkin, S.A. Odintsov, A.V. Sadovnikov, JETP Lett., Vol.110, No.8, pp.533–539 (2019) [5] V.E. Demidov, S. Urazhdin, S.O. Demokritov, J. Appl. Phys., Vpl.127, p.170901 (2020) [6] N. Thiery, V.V. Naletov, O. Klein, Phys. Rev. B. Vol.97, p.064422 (2018) [7] A.V. Sadovnikov, E.N. Beginin, S.A. Nikitov,Appl.Phys. Lett.,Vol.107, p.202405 (2015) [8] A. Vansteenkiste, J. Leliaert, B. Waeyenberge, AIP Advances, Vol.4, p.107133 (2014)

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Schematic view of the orthogonal magnetic waveguide

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Numerical results of transmission spectrum of the input signal (red) and output (blue) (a). Experimental transmission characteristics S21 (b). Numerical result of effective wavenumbers (c).

 Surface spin wave propagation in the orthogonal vertical junction of YIG-based magnonic waveguide

An existance and stability of discrete breathers in the monoaxial chiral helimagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moryia (DM) interaction and easy-plane anisotropy are investigated. We focus on the phase of forced ferromagnetism when the magnetic system is subjected to an external magnetic field directed along the chiral axis. The intrinsic breather modes have high frequencies above the maximum frequency of the spin-wave spectrum and are excited at the Brillouine zone boundary. We modify the numerical algorithm suggested in Ref. [1] to find the nonlinear solutions and show that these localized modes are characterized by a sign-changing ordering of transversal spin components. The discrete breathers in a finite-size system may be categorized by number of embedded kink-antikink pairs forming a regular breather lattice (Fig. 1). The DM interaction supresses amplitude of these modes and lowers their symmetry by allowing only excitations with an odd envelope function with respect to the center of the system. The energy of the discrete modes demonstrates a linear dependence on number of bound kink-antikink pairs. Floquet stability analysis [2] is employed to examine stability of the breather modes depending on their frequency and external parameters, such as strengths of the external magnetic field and the local anisotropy. The work is supported by the RFFI grant (project 20-02-00213).

**References:**

[1] S. Rakhmanova and D. L. Mills, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 54, p. 9225 (1996). [2] J. M. Khalack, Y. Zolotaryuk, and P. L. Christiansen, Chaos, Vol. 13, p. 683 (2003).

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Spatial distribution of spin moments (blue arrows) in a spin chain with different numbers of kink-antikink pairs. Cases without DM interaction: (a) n = 1, (b) n = 2, (c) n = 3; and with an account of the DM interaction: (d) n = 1, (e) n = 2, (f) n = 3.

 Discrete breathers and their stability in a finite-size monoaxial chiral helimagnet

In the last two decades, the rapid development of broadband communication systems is the cause of the creation of the ultrashort pulse (USP) sources. In optics, there are various methods for USP generation, one of which was given the Nobel Prize in Physics [1]. Nowadays, some optical methods for USP generation start to be used in the microwave range to generate both the USPs of "giant" amplitude [2] and the multisoliton complexes consisting of bright and dark spin-wave envelope solitons [3]. Recently, a new method for the ultrashort dark pulse generation was proposed [4]. It is based on the use of three-wave nonlinear spin-wave interactions and a nonlinear amplification. Using this method, the generation of microwave dark multisoliton complexes was obtained. Each multisoliton complex consists of some dark parametric pulses of submicrosecond duration that contains the trains of dark incoherent spin-wave envelope solitons possessing a subnanosecond duration. The characteristics of such patterns are controlled by a variable attenuator that is managed by the nonlinear loss of a magnetostatic spin wave (MSW), propagating in an irregular magnonic waveguide. Dynamic control of the MSW loss can be realized with the help of direct current (DC) [6,7]. If DC flows in a wire conductor located on the ferromagnet surface, then the internal magnetic field is locally changed in the ferromagnet. This causes a change not only in the MSW dispersion, but also in its linear loss. Dynamic control of the MSW loss by means of DC underlies the operation of a dynamic magnonic crystal (MC) [7]. The dynamic MC is a ferromagnetic medium, the internal magnetic field of which is periodically changed in space by DC. By analogy with photonic crystals, a periodic change in the parameters of the medium is the reason for the forbidden zones (FZs) formation. At FZs frequencies, the MSW linear loss undergo a significant change. Dynamic control of the MSW loss can also be realized for a static MC, if a DC-controlled local inhomogeneity is created on the surface of a periodic structure. This will make it possible to control not only the MSW loss at the frequencies of the FZs, but also the FZ location in the MSW spectrum. In this work, it is demonstrated the dynamic control of the loss and FZs of the static MC due to a local change in the MC internal magnetic field. In addition, the static MC with dynamic control of the loss and FZs is used in a feedback loop of an active ring resonator to manage a duty cycle of the chaotic dark parametric envelope solitons.The parametric wave model with nonlinear amplification is used to explain the experimental results. As shown in Fig.1a, the MC, contained in the feedback loop of the active ring resonator, is a periodic structure of crests and grooves that are formed on the surface of an yttrium-iron garnet film with a thickness of 10 μm. The crests and grooves have the same width of 100 μm. An external bias field H0=356 Oe is applied tangentially to the surface of the MC and directed along to the input and output microstrip lines. Such field configuration supports a magnetostatic surface spin wave (MSSW) propagation. The strength of the bias field is chosen so that three-wave nonlinear spin-wave interactions are allowed for the MC. A wire conductor connected to a DC source is placed along the longitudinal symmetry axis of the MC. Depending on the polarity of the DC, the MC internal magnetic field can either increase or decrease. As shown in Fig.1b, such changes of the internal magnetic field lead to the management of both the linear and nonlinear MSSW loss. In addition to the MC, the generator contains an amplifier stage, consisting of a klystron amplifier and two transistor amplifiers, that are necessary to compensate the loss. The output transistor amplifier of the stage operates in the output power saturation mode, and the other two amplifiers operate in the linear amplification mode. In addition, a resonant frequency of the klystron amplifier is tuned to a frequency located near the center frequency of the MC first FZ. This is necessary in order to realize the amplitude and phase conditions for signal generation. A generated microwave signal is fed through the directional couplers to the inputs of a spectrum analyzer and a real-time oscilloscope for analysis and processing. In Fig.2, the dark parametric soliton modes obtained both experimentally and calculated on the basis of the parametric wave model with nonlinear amplification are presented. The presented in Fig2a experimental results show that a change in the DC polarity leads to a change in the duty cycle of the generated chaotic dark parametric solitons. A similar effect is observed in a numerical experiment (see Fig2b), if the frequency of the parametrically excited spin waves is detuned from the half value of the MSSW frequency. This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Project No.19-79-20121).

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1. D. Strickland and G. Mourou, Opt. Commun., Vol.55, p.447 (1985). 2. N.S. Ginzburg, G.G. Denisov, M.N. Vilkov, and et al., Phys. Plasmas, Vol.24, p.023103 (2017). 3. S.V. Grishin, B.S. Dmitriev, O.I. Moskalenko, and et al., Phys. Rev. E, Vol.98, p.022209 (2018). 4. A.S. Bir, S.V. Grishin, O.I. Moskalenko, and et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol.125, p.083903 (2020). 5. M. Tsoi, A.G.M. Jansen, J. Bass, and et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol.80, p.4281 (1998). 6. S.O. Demokritov, A.A. Serga, A. Andre, and et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol.93, p.047201 (2004). 7. A.V. Chumak, T. Neumann, A.A. Serga, and et al., J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., Vol.42, p.205005 (2009).

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Fig.1 (a) Block diagram of the dark parametric soliton active ring resonator based on direct current-controlled magnonic crystal. (b) Dependences of the MSSW loss on the input power, measured at the MC FZ frequency at various values and polarity of DC.

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Fig.2 Sequences of the dark parametric envelope solitons obtained (a) experimentally and (b) calculated by the model. In (a), the pulses are obtained for two DC polarities: +320 mA (top panel) and -200 mA (bottom panel). In (b), the pulses are obtained for two values of the SW frequency detuning: 10-25 Hz (top panel) and 10-315 Hz (bottom panel).

 Direct Current Control of the Chaotic Dark Parametric Solitons in a Magnonic Crystal Active Ring Resonator

Sheet- and film-type soft magnetic materials have been widely used to suppress unexpected noise in mobile and wearable devices using ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) losses [1][2]. The designs of these magnetic noise suppressors are mainly based on large-scale electromagnetic field simulations and "trial and error" experiences. In previous studies, the effect of the complex permeability of the magnetic sheet and film on circuit parameters of transmission lines was investigated by a simple magnetic circuit analysis using only the cross-sectional size and material parameters [3]. However, the effect on the reflection and the transmission coefficients have not been estimated quantitatively and the design guideline of the noise suppressor has not been clarified. In this paper, the estimation method of the reflection and the transmission coefficients of a transmission line with a noise suppressor is investigated including the effect of the complex permeability. A 95 μm-width microstrip line (MSL) with a Co-Zr-Nb film is discussed as a test bench. The electrical equivalent circuit parameters of the MSL with Co-Zr-Nb film were calculated by the magnetic circuit analysis and the characteristic impedance was estimated. The thickness of the Co-Zr-Nb film was determined considering impedance matching below 1 GHz range, where it was assumed that a signal frequency range, and the conductive noise suppression by the Co-Zr-Nb film at 3 GHz was estimated. Figure 1 illustrates the magnetic circuit in the cross-sectional view of the MSL with the Co-Zr-Nb film. The MSL was fabricated on low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) substrate with the thickness h=100 µm and the relative permittivity of 9.8. The width, thickness and length of the signal line are ws=95 μm, ts=3 μm, and 10 mm, respectively. The Co-Zr-Nb film was fabricated using radio frequency (RF) sputtering and deposited on a SiO2 substrate. The film thickness t was obtained by the magnetic circuit analysis and the electromagnetic simulation so that the characteristic impedance of the MSL with and without the film have a same value. The electrical equivalent circuit of the MSL with the Co-Zr-Nb film was obtained to calculate the characteristic impedance. The circuit consists of series impedance Z = R + jωL = (Rm+Re+Rs) + jωLm and parallel conductance Y = jωC, where Rm and Lm were calculated by the magnetic circuit analysis considering the effect of the complex permeability of the Co-Zr-Nb film. Rs and Re were the resistance of the signal line including the skin effect and the increase of resistance due to the eddy current loss generated in the film [3], respectively. C = 2 pF calculated by experimental value at 0.1 GHz [4]. Figure 2(a) shows the estimated characteristic impedance Z0 = (Z/Y)0.5 with t = 0.1-1 μm. Below 1 GHz, the impedance is roughly constant and the estimated impedance of the MSL with 1-μm-thick film is almost the same as the measured value of MSL without the film. Therefore, t = 1 μm was used to calculate the reflection and the transmission coefficient. Figure 2(b) and (c) shows the reflection coefficient |S11|, transmission coefficient |S21|, and the noise suppression Ploss/Pin = 1-(|s21|2 +|s11|2) of the MSL with 1-μm-thick film obtained by the electrical equivalent circuit analysis. In the case with the film, |S11| and |S21| were almost the same as the measured value within about 8 dB and 0.1 dB below 5 GHz, respectively. |S11| increased up to 8 dB below 1 GHz but the value kept less than -25 dB. On the other hand, |S21| decreased as the frequency increased because of the combination of FMR and Joule losses in each film at 3 GHz. Ploss/Pin is maximized at 3 GHz. In summary, the reflection and the transmission coefficients of a transmission line with a noise suppressor were quantitatively estimated including the effect of the complex permeability using the magnetic circuit analysis using the cross-sectional size and material parameters. The thickness of the Co-Zr-Nb film was determined considering characteristic impedance matching. As a result, the reflection coefficient was lower than -25 dB below 1 GHz, and the conductive noise suppression was obtained at 3 GHz. Those results give a way to clarify the design guideline of the noise suppressors. This work was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 20K04497. Part of this work was carried out under the Cooperative Research Project Program of the Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University.

**References:**

[1] S. Yoshida et al., IEEE Trans. Magn., Vol.37, No.4, pp.2401-2403 (2001). [2] K. Kondo et al., IEEE Trans. Magn., Vol.45, No.10, pp.4250-4252 (2009). [3] S. Muroga et al., J. Elec. Materi., Vol.48, No.3, pp.1342-1346 (2019). [4] T. Mikami et al., The 44th Annual Conf. Magn. Jpn, 14aD-11 (2020).

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Fig.1 cross-sectional dimensions and magnetic circuit of a one kine MSL with Co-Zr-Nb film

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(a) Charateristic impedance (b) S parameter (c) Input loss ratio 
Fig.2 Transmission characteristics

 Estimation of Noise Suppression in MSL with Co-Zr-Nb films Considering Impedance Matching

Nowadays, the Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) presents itself as a new option to charge batteries, in order to eliminate the respective cables and gain mobility, convenience and ease for the user. One of the WPT techniques uses the Coupled Magnetic Resonance (CMR). This technology is capable of transmitting electromagnetic energy from a power source (transmitter coil) to an electric load (in the receiver coil) through a gap in the air and the variation and oscillation of magnetic fields [1]. Metamaterials (MM’s) are typically conductive elements such as copper, gold and silver [2]. They present unnatural magnetic properties, obtained from their internal arrangement, which allow them to obtain a negative refractive index, making them perfect lens. Thus, they are used between the coils to increase the efficiency of WPT. Veselago called the MM's as left-handed materials (LH materials) because the propagation of electromagnetic waves with the electric and magnetic fields and propagation vector forms a left-handed triad when compared to conventional materials. He predicted several behavioral phenomena that occur in LH media such as the reversal of the Doppler effect and the Snell's law and negative refraction [3]. In this work, since the technique chosen was that of strong resonant magnetic coupling, where the magnetic characteristic of the evanescent field prevails, we opted to use a structure with MNG characteristics (Mi-negative Medium, ε &gt; 0, μ &lt;0), which can be obtained from the Split Ring Resonators (SRR's). If the magnetic field H is perpendicular to the plane of the rings, in order to induce resonant currents in the loop and generate equivalent magnetic dipole moments, this MM exhibits plasmatic permeability as a function of frequency [4]. The main goal is to propose a metamaterial topology that allows a horizontal misalignment between transmitter and receiver coils, resulting in a more efficient system. The system was simulated on CST® Studio software. The transmitter and receiver coils are flat and have 7 loops, width of 2.49 mm, spacing of 1.0 mm, inner radius of 22 mm and outer radius of 47 mm. These coils are in a FR4 substrate with dimensions of 100 x 100 x 1.5 mm. The distance between the coils ranged from 4 cm to 10 cm without misalignment. The transmitter coil has an alternating voltage source (Vmax of 100 V) and the receiver has a resistor of 100 Ω as load. This same system was simulated with a metamaterial slab placed at half way between the coils. The metamaterial slab has the dimensions of 100 x 150 x 1.5 mm, and 12 unit cells arranged in a 4x3 array with two copper Split-ring resonators (SRR’s) with height of 0.02 mm, width of 1.63 mm, and spacing of 1.47 mm, and 2 capacitors of 47 nF. The system was designed and computed for a resonance frequency of 1 MHz. The best results were at 4 cm with the MM slab, where there was an increase of 77.32% in the efficiency (12.23% to 23.46%), 24% in the maximum voltage (67.19 V to 83.42 V) and current (671.89 mA to 834.20 mA), 54% in the power (45.14 W to 69.59 W). Figure 2 shows the efficiency of the system, at 4 cm, simulated with a horizontal misalignment between the coils, with and without metamaterial. Although the system is very sensitive to the misalignment, it still presents a better efficiency compared to no MM setup. After introducing the MM slab, there was an increase in the efficiency of 55.63% (13.14% to 20.45%) in 1 cm, 52.72% (10.81% to 16.51%) in 2 cm and 49.41% (7.67% to 11.46%) in 3 cm of misalignment. Even with 2 cm of misalignment, the system with MM is more efficient than the one without it (16.51 to 13.23%). Thus, the MM was able to increase efficiency in wireless power transfer even with horizontal misalignment between coils.

**References:**

[1] D. C. Corrêa, U. C. Resende and F. S. Bicalho, "Experiments With a Compact Wireless Power Transfer System Using Strongly Coupled Magnetic Resonance and Metamaterials," in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 1-4, Aug. 2019. [2] X. Wang, Y. Wang, Y. Hu, Y. He and Z. Yan, "Analysis of Wireless Power Transfer Using Superconducting Metamaterials," in IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 1-5, March 2019. [3] D. Smith, J. B. Pendry; Reversing light negative refraction. Physics Today, 57, pp. 37-45, 2009. [4] C. Caloz.; T. Itoh; T. Electromagnetic Metamaterials: Transmission Line Theory and Microwave Applications. The Engineering Approach. [s.l.] Wiley, 2006.

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Fig. 1 – Efficiency comparison without misalignment

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Fig. 2 - Efficiency comparison with misalignment between coils

 High Efficient Wireless Power Transfer Through Metamaterial Coupled Magnetic Resonance

In modern radar and communication systems it is important to determine the frequency composition of complex external signals on the µs time scale and faster [1]. Common swept-tuned spectrum analyzers (SA) are limited to sweep times of 10-100 ms determined by the characteristic times of macroscopic VCOs and YIG-tuned reference oscillators. In contrast, recent progress in spintronics has led to the development of spin-torque nano-oscillators (STNO) generating in the GHz frequency range, and naturally having time constants of the order of several nanoseconds determined by the intrinsic properties of magnetization dynamics at nano-scale [2]. In [3] it was proposed theoretically and in [4] demonstrated experimentally for a vortex-state configuration that STNOs can be used as a central element of an ultra-fast spectrum analyzer. A fastest sweep rate of 0.67us was achieved for spectral analysis in the range of 25MHz around center frequency of 300MHz. Here we focus on increasing the bandwidth and operational frequency of the STNO SA concept. For this purpose a special uniform-state STNO was nanofabricated. We show that our uniform-state STNO has a very wide frequency-current tuning range and high operational frequency. With such an STNO we pushed the STNO-based SA concept to a central frequency of 9 GHz. The corresponding SA performances sufficiently exceed the results obtained with a vortex-state STNO with a reduced sweep time of T = 20 ns, and a record sweep range of 1GHz (limited mostly by STNO power and not by the tuning range capabilities) keeping the RBW (resolution bandwidth) close to the theoretical limit (50 MHz). This GHz-frequency technique of spectrum analysis was implemented as shown in Fig.1. The STNO was used as a local oscillator whose frequency was sweep-tuned via an additional saw-tooth sweep signal. The STNO output is, then, mixed with the input signal, digitized, and processed with a matched filter, resulting in a narrow output peak whose temporal position corresponds to the input frequency while the width determines the RBW. In the top panel of the inset of Fig.1 we show a series of peaks obtained with an input signal whose frequency was changing in time in a saw-tooth manner with a period of 500ns. The sweeping rate of the STNO SA was chosen 10 times faster so that the changes of the input signal frequency could be correctly tracked. As can be seen from the spectrogram in the bottom panel of the inset, the shape of the instantaneous input frequency was successfully tracked with sufficient RBW of 34.6MHz. Financial support is acknowledged from the EC program ERC MAGICAL 669204, from the NSF of the USA (Grants # EFMA-1641989 and “ECCS-1708982), and by the US AFOSR (MURI grant # FA9550-19-1-0307).

**References:**

[1] V.C., Chen and W.J., Miceli, “Time-varying spectral analysis for radar imaging of manoeuvring targets”, IEEE Proceedings - Radar, Sonar and Navigation 145, 262-268 (1998). [2] T. Chen, et al., “Spin-Torque and Spin-Hall Nano-Oscillators”, IEEE Proceedings, 104, 1919-1945 (2016). [3] S. Louis, et al., “Ultra-fast wide band spectrum analyzer based on a rapidly tuned spin-torque nano-oscillator”, Applied Physics Letters 113, 112401 (2018). [4] A. Litvinenko, et al., “Ultrafast sweep-tuned spectrum analyzer with temporal resolution based on a spin-torque nano-oscillator,” Nano Letters 20; 6104-6111 (2020).

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Fig.1. Ultra-fast GHz STNO-based spectrum analyzer. In the inset, top panel, left axis: Vspec vs time for 10 consecutive sweeps. Right axis: The time variation of the input signal frequency fin. 
Bottom panel: fspec vs time in the form of waterfall spectrogram.

 Ultra-fast spectrum analysis at GHz frequencies using spin-torque nano-oscillators

Two-dimensional Airy beam can be widely used in long distance high-efficiency wireless power transfer and security communication in microwave band. How to excite Airy beams effectively has drawn a lot of attentions in recent years. Wen-Long Guo et al. proposed a metasurface-based one-dimensional Airy beam excitation method [1], which successfully generated the one-dimensional Airy beam. Yongjun Huang et al. successfully generated the two-dimensional Airy beam in the microwave band by using a metasurface composed of a-single-layer C-shaped complementary split ring resonators (C-SRR) [2] operating in microwave band. While the manipulation of the deflection of the main lobe has not been achieved in the previous works, and the size of the proposed metasurface is too large to integrate with other devices. In this paper, a novel method to generate and control two-dimensional Airy beam is proposed. By changing the parameters and rotation angles of the unit cell structures, as shown in Fig. 1(a), the amplitude and phase of the transmission coefficient can be adjusted, then the desired two-dimensional Airy beam can be excited by arranging the unit cells to construct the metasurface. In addition, the deflection conditions of the main lobe can be manipulated by changing the attenuation coefficient of the two-dimensional Airy function. The envelope of the two-dimensional Airy beam can be described by equation (1): U(x,y)=fai (x)fai (y)exp(ax)exp(ay) (1) fai(x)=(∫cos(t3÷3+xt)dt)÷π (2) Here, a is the attenuation coefficient in the two-dimensional Airy function. In this paper, simplified amplitude modulation method is used, as shown in Fig.1 (b), the main amplitude region of the two-dimensional Airy function is selected to design the desired envelope. As shown in Fig.1 (c), the number of horizontal and vertical elements of the proposed metasurface is 22, which greatly reduces the size of the device that exciting the two-dimensional Airy beam. Fig.1 (d) to (f) show the normalized energy distribution of the two-dimensional Airy beam at different distances along the propagating direction when a equals 0.1. It can be seen that the main lobe moves along the diagonal direction, which shows the self-acceleration phenomenon of the two-dimensional Airy beam. The self-acceleration direction of the two-dimensional Airy beam is the diagonal direction, and the deflection of the main lobe is related to the amplitude distribution in the self-bending direction [3]. By changing the attenuation coefficient, different amplitude distribution of the unit cells on the diagonal of proposed metasurface can be achieved to control the deflection of the main lobe. Fig.2 (a) to (c) show the calculated and simulated results of electric field distribution of the vertical diagonal plane with different attenuation coefficients. The simulated results agree well with the calculated results in the deflection trajectory, which verifies that the deflection conditions of the main lobe can be manipulated effectively.

**References:**

[1] Wen-Long Guo, Ke Chen, Guang-Ming Wang, Adv. Optical Mater., Vol. 8 (2020) [2] Huang Y , Li J , Xu H X, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation., pp(99):1-1 (2020) [3] Zhi Li, Hua Cheng, Zhaocheng Liu, Advanced Optical Materials., Vol. 4, pp.1230-1235 (2016) [4] Qingbin Fan, Wenqi Zhu, Yuzhang Liang, Nano Letters., Vol. 19, pp.1158−1165 (2018) [5] X. Ding, F. Monticone, K. Zhang, Advanced materials., Vol. 27, pp.1195 (2015)

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Fig.1. a) Schematic diagram of a unit cell of the proposed single layer metasurface b) Normalized amplitude distribution of two-dimensional Airy function c) Schematic diagram of the entire surface array. The normalized horizontal plane energy distribution when the propagation distance is d) 90mm, e) 180mm, f) 240mm.

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Fig.2. The energy distribution at the vertical diagonal plane when the attenuation coefficient is a) 0.3, b) 0.1, c) 0.0005.

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