Electrical detection of magnons with nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions
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| author | Heins, Christopher Xiong, Zeling Kákay, Attila Kim, Joo-Von Devolder, Thibaut Titova, Aleksandra Müller, Johannes Hübner, René Worbs, Andreas Narkowicz, Ryszard Fassbender, Jürgen Schultheiss, Katrin Schultheiss, Helmut |
| author_facet | Heins, Christopher Xiong, Zeling Kákay, Attila Kim, Joo-Von Devolder, Thibaut Titova, Aleksandra Müller, Johannes Hübner, René Worbs, Andreas Narkowicz, Ryszard Fassbender, Jürgen Schultheiss, Katrin Schultheiss, Helmut |
| contents | Present information and communication technologies are largely based on electronic devices, which suffer from heat generation and high power consumption. Alternatives like spintronics and magnonics, which harness the spin degree of freedom, offer compelling pathways to overcome these fundamental limitations of charge-based electronics. Magnonics relies on spin waves, the collective excitations of magnetic moments in magnetically ordered materials, to achieve processing and transport of information at microwave frequencies without relying on charge currents. However, efficient means for all-electrical, high-resolution, semiconductor-compatible readout of information encoded in spin waves are still missing. Here, we demonstrate the electrical detection of spin waves using a nanoscale magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) cell fabricated in a state-of-the-art complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) production line. By engineering the dynamic coupling between spin waves and the magnetization state of the MTJ, we demonstrate transduction of spin-wave excitations into measurable electrical signals with high fidelity. Moreover, through these measurements, we find spectral line widths, associated with nonlinear processes, down to a few hundreds of kHz, which opens up new perspectives for spin waves as quantum transducers. |
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| spellingShingle | Electrical detection of magnons with nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions Heins, Christopher Xiong, Zeling Kákay, Attila Kim, Joo-Von Devolder, Thibaut Titova, Aleksandra Müller, Johannes Hübner, René Worbs, Andreas Narkowicz, Ryszard Fassbender, Jürgen Schultheiss, Katrin Schultheiss, Helmut Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Present information and communication technologies are largely based on electronic devices, which suffer from heat generation and high power consumption. Alternatives like spintronics and magnonics, which harness the spin degree of freedom, offer compelling pathways to overcome these fundamental limitations of charge-based electronics. Magnonics relies on spin waves, the collective excitations of magnetic moments in magnetically ordered materials, to achieve processing and transport of information at microwave frequencies without relying on charge currents. However, efficient means for all-electrical, high-resolution, semiconductor-compatible readout of information encoded in spin waves are still missing. Here, we demonstrate the electrical detection of spin waves using a nanoscale magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) cell fabricated in a state-of-the-art complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) production line. By engineering the dynamic coupling between spin waves and the magnetization state of the MTJ, we demonstrate transduction of spin-wave excitations into measurable electrical signals with high fidelity. Moreover, through these measurements, we find spectral line widths, associated with nonlinear processes, down to a few hundreds of kHz, which opens up new perspectives for spin waves as quantum transducers. |
| title | Electrical detection of magnons with nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19483 |