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EPL
Volume 109, Number 3, February 2015
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| Article Number | 37008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/109/37008 | |
| Published online | 19 February 2015 | |
Spin-wave propagation in domain wall magnonic crystal
School of Physics and Electronics, Central South University - Changsha, 410083, China
(a) guogh@mail.csu.edu.cn (corresponding author)
Received: 27 September 2014
Accepted: 26 January 2015
We present a new type of magnonic crystal consisting of a series of periodically distributed magnetic domain walls in a uniform strip. When spin waves propagate in such a structure, allowed and forbidden bands are formed due to translation symmetry and scattering of the spin waves at the domain wall boundaries caused by the dynamic stray field in the domain wall region. The control of the bandgap position in frequency and its width by the period of magnonic crystal and the domain wall width is investigated. It is found that the bandgap position decreases monotonously with the increase of the period or domain wall width, while the bandgap width displays an oscillated behavior. The origin of the oscillation of the bandgap width is discussed. This work may provide a new way of designing reconfigurable magnonic devices.
PACS: 75.60.Ch – Domain walls and domain structure / 75.30.Ds – Spin waves / 75.40.Gb – Dynamic properties (dynamic susceptibility, spin waves, spin diffusion, dynamic scaling, etc.)
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