Spin-torque nano-emitters for magnonic applications

In the emerging field of magnonics, spin waves are utilized as a medium for high-speed transmission and processing of electrical signals on the nanometer scale. The implementation of high-performance magnonic devices requires efficient nano-scaled sources of spin waves. Here, we demonstrate experimentally that this goal can be accomplished by utilizing a modified design of spin-torque devices, in which the internal dipolar field is compensated in the active device area by a built-in micromagnet. We show experimentally that the proposed device geometry enables efficient emission of spin waves with a large propagation length for practical implementation of integrated magnonic circuits. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4704563]