2023/12/23 by Marc Rovirola, Muhammad Waqas Khaliq, Rovirola, Marc +21 · 1 citation
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies #FOS: Physical sciences #Magnetic Properties and Applications #Magnetic properties of thin films #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.15269
openalex publication_date 2023/12/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We use surface acoustic waves of 1 and 3 GHz in hybrid piezoelectric-magnetic systems with either cobalt or nickel as a magnetic layer to generate magnetoacoustic waves and directly image them using stroboscopic X-ray magnetic circular dichroism imaging. Our measurements visualize and quantify the amplitudes of both acoustic and magnetic components of the magnetoacoustic waves, which are generated in the ferromagnetic layer and can propagate over millimeter distances. Additionally, we quantifiedy the magnetoelastic strain component for cobalt and nickel through micromagnetic simulations. We obtained a drop in the magnetoacoustic signal at 3 GHz suggesting a speed limit for the efficient magnetoelastic coupling in our hybrid devices.