2020/01/31 by Michal Kobecki, Alexey V. Scherbakov, Tetiana L. Linnik +7
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Amplitude #Chemical and Physical Properties of Materials #Excited state #Femtosecond #Ferromagnetism #Laser #Magnetic properties of thin films #Magnetization #Magnon #Thermal #Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies #Thermal energy #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17635-1
Manuscript: 12 pages, 3 figures; Supplemental information: 7 pages; 4 figures, 3 tables
openalex created_date 2020/01/30 · arxiv created 2020/05/15 · openalex publication_date 2020/08/17 · arxiv updated 2020/09/09 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Energy harvesting is a concept which makes dissipated heat useful by transferring thermal energy to other excitations. Most of the existing principles are realized in systems which are heated continuously. We present the concept of high-frequency energy harvesting where the dissipated heat in a sample excites resonant magnons in a thin ferromagnetic metal layer. The sample is excited by femtosecond laser pulses with a repetition rate of 10 GHz, which results in temperature modulation at the same frequency with amplitude ~0.1 K. The alternating temperature excites magnons in the ferromagnetic nanolayer which are detected by measuring the net magnetization precession. When the magnon frequency is brought onto resonance with the optical excitation, a 12-fold increase of the amplitude of precession indicates efficient resonant heat transfer from the lattice to coherent magnons. The demonstrated principle may be used for energy harvesting in various nanodevices operating at GHz and sub-THz frequency ranges.