Nanoscaled Magnonic Networks
Our view of the building blocks for magnetic components and their assembly on the chip.
Our way to detect magnons: Brillouin light scattering microscopy
CoSpiN “Coherent Networks for Neuromorphic Computing” funded by the ERC
Roadmap on spin-wave computing
Check out this comprehensive description of recent developments and trends in magnonic computing.
Spin waves, the elementary low energy excitations of an ordered spin system, and their bosonic quanta, magnons, carry energy and angular momentum in the form of spin. The field of magnonics aims to create devices for sensing, data processing and logic which are based on spin waves and their outstanding properties like intrinsic nonlinearity and nanometer wavelengths at GHz frequencies.
Our scientific aim is to explore and combine emerging physical phenomena which can be used to realise novel magnonic hybrid systems with novel and superior characteristics. We have a particular focus on:
- Nonlinear spin-wave phenomena in micro- and nanostructures
- Nanoscaled magnonic devices for unconventional data processing
- Novel materials for magnonics including low-damping Heuler compounds
- Hybrid systems combining magnonics with spintronic and phononic systems
- Amplification and control of coherent spin-waves in micro-and nanostructures using parametric processes
- Nonreciprocal magnonic systems based on dipole-dipole and DMI interactions
To achieve our goals, we investigate magnonics systems experimentally by Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy and inductive techniques. To study and optimize magnonic systems before fabrication, we employ massively parallelized micromagnetic simulations. These simulations are run and analysed by our home-made AITHERICON software platform with the aim to use artificial intelligence, neural networks and inverse design methods to create magnonic systems with designed and superior properties for wave-based transport and data processing.
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SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND ACCEPTED SUBMISSIONS
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- Hybrid magnonic spintronic system for tunable broadband signal filtering and microwave generationA. Koujok, A. Hamadeh, L.Martins, F. Kohl, B. Heinz, U. Ebels, P. Pirro2510.04976
- All-magnonic neurons for analog artificial neural networksDavid Breitbach, Moritz Bechberger, Hanadi Mortada, Björn Heinz, Roman Verba, Qi Wang, Carsten Dubs, Mario Carpentieri, Giovanni Finocchio, Davi Rodrigues, Alexandre Abbass Hamadeh, Philipp Pirro2509.18321
- Deeply Nonlinear Magnonic Directional CouplerXu Ge, Roman Verba, Philipp Pirro, Andrii V Chumak, Qi WangNano Letters , (2025)2505.13829
- YSGAG: The Ideal Substrate for YIG in Quantum MagnonicsRostyslav O. Serha, Carsten Dubs, Christo Guguschev, Bernd Aichner, David Schmoll, Jaganandha Panda, Matthias Weiler, Philipp Pirro, Michal Urbánek, Andrii V. Chumak2508.19044
- Efficient spin-wave excitation by surface acoustic waves in ultra-low damping YIG/ZnO-heterostructuresYannik Kunz, Julian Schüler, Finlay Ryburn, Kevin Künstle, Michael Schneider, Katharina Lasinger, Yangzhan Zhang, Philipp Pirro, John Gregg, Mathias WeilerPHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED 24, 014043 (2025)arXiv.2503.11203