High wave vector non-reciprocal spin wave beams

Abstract

We report unidirectional transmission of micron-wide spin waves beams in a 55 nm thin YIG. We downscaled a chiral coupling technique implementing Ni80Fe20 nanowires arrays with different widths and lattice spacing to study the non-reciprocal transmission of exchange spin waves down to λ ≈ 80 nm. A full spin wave spectroscopy analysis of these high wavevector coupled-modes shows some difficulties to characterize their propagation properties, due to both the non-monotonous field dependence of the coupling efficiency, and also the inhomogeneous stray field from the nanowires.