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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep25018
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- Center for NanoFerroic Devices (CNFD)
- Nanoelectronics Research Initiative(NRI)
- National Science Foundation of the USA [ECCS-1305586, DMR-1015175]
- MTO/MESO from DARPA [N66001-11-1-4114]
- U.S. Army TARDEC, RDECOM
- Italian MIUR [PRIN2010ECA8P3]
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The voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) effect, which manifests itself as variation of anisotropy of a thin layer of a conductive ferromagnet on a dielectric substrate under the influence of an external electric voltage, can be used for the development of novel information storage and signal processing devices with low power consumption. Here it is demonstrated by micromagnetic simulations that the application of a microwave voltage to a nanosized VCMA gate in an ultrathin ferromagnetic nanowire results in the parametric excitation of a propagating spin wave, which could serve as a carrier of information. The frequency of the excited spin wave is twice smaller than the frequency of the applied voltage while its amplitude is limited by 2 mechanisms: (i) the so-called phase mechanism described by the Zakharov-L'vov-Starobinets S-theory and (ii) the saturation mechanism associated with the nonlinear frequency shift of the excited spin wave. The developed extension of the S-theory, which takes into account the second limitation mechanism, allowed us to estimate theoretically the efficiency of the parametric excitation of spin waves by the VCMA effect.
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