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Research Group Nanoscaled Magnonic Hybrids

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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Der Spin schlägt Wellen
We are very happy that our group could contribute to this article for the general public which explains the idea of spin-wave based computing. It appeared in the „Bild der Wissenschaft“ (in German) in April 2022 and is linked below….
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Internship of Nicolas Fermon
From Mach to July 2023, we had the pleasure to host Nicolas Fermon from Ecole National Supérieure (ENS) Paris-Saclay for his internship. As part of Anna Friedel’s work on highly polarized Heusler alloys, Nicolas studied their magneto-optical properties. He was…
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SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND ACCEPTED SUBMISSIONS

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    2025

  1. Hybrid magnonic spintronic system for tunable broadband signal filtering and microwave generation
    A. Koujok, A. Hamadeh, L.Martins, F. Kohl, B. Heinz, U. Ebels, P. Pirro
    2510.04976
    • Nano-oscillators
    • Magnonics

  2. All-magnonic neurons for analog artificial neural networks
    David Breitbach, Moritz Bechberger, Hanadi Mortada, Björn Heinz, Roman Verba, Qi Wang, Carsten Dubs, Mario Carpentieri, Giovanni Finocchio, Davi Rodrigues, Alexandre Abbass Hamadeh, Philipp Pirro
    2509.18321
    • BLS
    • Neuromorphic
    • YIG
    • Magnonics
    • Spin-wave computing

  3. Deeply Nonlinear Magnonic Directional Coupler
    Xu Ge, Roman Verba, Philipp Pirro, Andrii V Chumak, Qi Wang
    Nano Letters , (2025)
    2505.13829
    • Nonlinear process
    • YIG
    • Simulation

  4. YSGAG: The Ideal Substrate for YIG in Quantum Magnonics
    Rostyslav O. Serha, Carsten Dubs, Christo Guguschev, Bernd Aichner, David Schmoll, Jaganandha Panda, Matthias Weiler, Philipp Pirro, Michal Urbánek, Andrii V. Chumak
    2508.19044
    • Magnonics
    • YIG
    • FMR

  5. Efficient spin-wave excitation by surface acoustic waves in ultra-low damping YIG/ZnO-heterostructures
    Yannik Kunz, Julian Schüler, Finlay Ryburn, Kevin Künstle, Michael Schneider, Katharina Lasinger, Yangzhan Zhang, Philipp Pirro, John Gregg, Mathias Weiler
    PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED 24, 014043 (2025)
    arXiv.2503.11203
    • Surface Acoustic Waves (SAW)
    • Magneto-elastic interaction
    • YIG