| SPECIAL TOPIC — Advanced magnonics |
Prev
Next
|
|
|
Efficient magnon transport and magnon torque through the epitaxial antiferromagnetic insulator α-Fe2O3 |
| Donglin Song(宋东霖)1,2,†, Fanyu Meng(孟凡毓)1,2,†, Mingyang Sun(孙铭扬)1,2, Hongrui Ni(倪泓睿)1,2, Jinhao Zou(邹锦豪)2, Zichen Yao(姚子忱)2, Zhenlong Guo(郭振龙)1,2, Yichi Zhang(张一驰)1,2, Liyan Zhang(张丽艳)3, Hongliang Bai(白洪亮)1, Wenping Zhou(周文平)4, and Yi Wang(王译)1,2,‡ |
1 Key Laboratory of Materials Modification by Laser, Ion and Electron Beams (Dalian University of Technology), Ministry of Education, Dalian 116024, China;
2 School of Physics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China;
3 School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China;
4 Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Microscale Physics and Atom Innovation, and Research Center for Quantum Physics and Technologies, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China |
|
|
|
|
Abstract Magnons, as key carriers of spin angular momentum, enable spin transport without charge movement in magnetic insulators, thereby greatly reducing Joule heating in spintronic devices. Magnon-mediated spin torque (i.e., magnon torque) provides an alternative approach for efficient magnetization manipulation. However, magnon transmission through antiferromagnetic insulators still suffers from notable propagation losses, limiting the efficiency of magnon torque. Here, we fabricate high-quality epitaxial $\alpha $-Fe$_{2}$O$_{3}$ thin films by magnetron sputtering that exhibit strong antiferromagnetic ordering, and successfully demonstrate highly efficient magnon transport and magnon torque in Pt/$\alpha $-Fe$_{2}$O$_{3}$/NiFe devices at room temperature. It is observed that magnons propagate through a 20-nm-thick $\alpha $-Fe$_{2}$O$_{3}$ layer with a significantly enhanced transmission efficiency of 75 %, about 2.5 times higher than that in previously reported NiO-based magnonic devices. Consequently, a pronounced magnon torque is exerted on the adjacent ferromagnetic layer. Our work demonstrates that $\alpha $-Fe$_{2}$O$_{3}$ is a promising antiferromagnetic material for efficient magnon channels, advancing the study of energy-efficient, high-speed magnonic devices.
|
Received: 20 December 2025
Revised: 09 February 2026
Accepted manuscript online: 23 February 2026
|
|
PACS:
|
75.76.+j
|
(Spin transport effects)
|
| |
75.50.Ee
|
(Antiferromagnetics)
|
| |
75.30.Ds
|
(Spin waves)
|
| |
76.50.+g
|
(Ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic, and ferrimagnetic resonances; spin-wave resonance)
|
|
| Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. T2495211, 12261131506, 12074052, and 12504121), the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province of China (Grant Nos. 2021-YQ-06 and 2025-BS-0077), the Open Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Spintronics Devices and Technologies (Grant No. SPL- 2410), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant Nos. DUT24GJ204, DUT25Z2746, and DUT25RC(3)066). |
Corresponding Authors:
Yi Wang
E-mail: yiwang@dlut.edu.cn
|
Cite this article:
Donglin Song(宋东霖), Fanyu Meng(孟凡毓), Mingyang Sun(孙铭扬), Hongrui Ni(倪泓睿), Jinhao Zou(邹锦豪), Zichen Yao(姚子忱), Zhenlong Guo(郭振龙), Yichi Zhang(张一驰), Liyan Zhang(张丽艳), Hongliang Bai(白洪亮), Wenping Zhou(周文平), and Yi Wang(王译) Efficient magnon transport and magnon torque through the epitaxial antiferromagnetic insulator α-Fe2O3 2026 Chin. Phys. B 35 047505
|
[1] Jungwirth T, Sinova J, Manchon A, Marti X, Wunderlich J and Felser C 2018 Nat. Phys. 14 200
[2] Kajiwara Y, Harii K, Takahashi S, Ohe J I, Uchida K, Mizuguchi M, Umezawa H, Kawai H, Ando K, Takanashi K, Maekawa S and Saitoh E 2010 Nature 464 262
[3] Han X, Wu H and Zhang T 2024 Appl. Phys. Lett. 125 020501
[4] Lebrun R, Ross A, Bender S A, Qaiumzadeh A, Baldrati L, Cramer J, Brataas A, Duine R A and Kläui M 2018 Nature 561 222
[5] Chumak A V, Vasyuchka V I, Serga A A and Hillebrands B 2015 Nat. Phys. 11 453
[6] Cheng R, Xiao D and Brataas A 2016 Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 207603
[7] Wang Q, Csaba G, Verba R, Chumak A V and Pirro P 2024 Phys. Rev. Appl. 21 040503
[8] Gasemi S and Ebrahimkhas M 2025 Chin. Phys. B 34 077302
[9] Guo X, Zhang M and Yao D 2025 Chin. Phys. Lett. 42 120703
[10] Zhu H, Shi H, Tang Z and Tang B 2024 Chin. Phys. B 33 037503
[11] Rezende S M, De Aguiar F M and Azevedo A 2006 Phys. Rev. B 73 094402
[12] Yu H, d’Allivy Kelly O, Cros V, Bernard R, Bortolotti P, Anane A, Brandl F, Heimbach F and Grundler D 2016 Nat. Commun. 7 11255
[13] Demidov V E, Urazhdin S, Ulrichs H, Tiberkevich V, Slavin A, Baither D, Schmitz G and Demokritov S O 2012 Nat. Mater. 11 1028
[14] Cornelissen L J, Liu J, Duine R A, Youssef J B and VanWees B J 2015 Nat. Phys. 11 1022
[15] Evelt M, Soumah L, Rinkevich A B, Demokritov S O, Anane A, Cros V, Ben Youssef J, de Loubens G, Klein O, Bortolotti P and Demidov V E 2018 Phys. Rev. Appl. 10 041002
[16] Lin W, Chen K, Zhang S and Chien C L 2016 Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 186601
[17] Qiu Z, Hou D, Barker J, Yamamoto K, Gomonay O and Saitoh E 2018 Nat. Mater. 17 577
[18] Yuan W, Zhu Q, Su T, Yao Y, Xing W, Chen Y, Ma Y, Lin X, Shi J, Shindou R, Xie X C and Han W 2018 Sci. Adv. 4 eaat1098
[19] Wang W, Wang T, Amin V P, Wang Y, Radhakrishnan A, Davidson A, Allen S R, Silva T J, Ohldag H, Balzar D, Zink B L, Haney P M, Xiao J Q, Cahill D G, Lorenz V O and Fan X 2019 Nat. Nanotechnol. 14 819
[20] Wang Y, Zhu D, Yang Y, Lee K, Mishra R, Go G, Oh S H, Kim D H, Cai K, Liu E, Pollard S D, Shi S, Lee J, Teo K L, Wu Y, Lee K J and Yang H 2019 Science 366 1125
[21] Guo C Y,Wan C H, Zhao M K, Fang C, Ma T Y,Wang X, Yan Z R, He W Q, Xing Y W, Feng J F and Han X F 2021 Phys. Rev. B 104 094412
[22] Wang F, Shi G, Yang D, Tan H R, Zhang C, Lei J, Pu Y, Yang S, Soumyanarayanan A, Elyasi M and Yang H 2024 Nat. Nanotechnol. 19 1478
[23] Zheng D, Tang M, Xu J, Liu C, Li Y, Chen A, Algaidi H, Alsayafi F, Chen M, Ma Y, Zhang S, Zhang L, Li P and Zhang X 2024 Appl. Phys. Lett. 124 102406
[24] Wang Y and Yang H 2022 Acc. Mater. Res. 3 1061
[25] Yi W 2020 Physics 49 29
[26] Shi G, Wang F, Tan H R, Zhao S, Liu Y, Yang D, Lee K, Pu Y, Yang S, Soumyanarayanan A and Yang H 2023 Phys. Rev. Appl. 19 034039
[27] Ohmichi E, Shoji Y, Takahashi H and Ohta H 2022 J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 91 095001
[28] Chen X, Jarvis K, Sullivan S, Li Y, Zhou J and Shi L 2017 Phys. Rev. B 95 144310
[29] Wang J, Wu W, Zhao F and Zhao G M 2011 J. Appl. Phys. 109 056101
[30] Tanner B K, Clark G F and Safa M 1988 Philos. Mag. B 57 361
[31] Pati S P, Al-Mahdawi M, Ye S, Nozaki T and Sahashi M 2017 Phys. Status Solidi RRL 11 1700101
[32] Shimomura N, Pati S P, Sato Y, Nozaki T, Shibata T, Mibu K and Sahashi M 2015 J. Appl. Phys. 117 17
[33] Bhowmik R N and Saravanan A 2010 J. Appl. Phys. 107 053916
[34] Morin F J 1950 Phys. Rev. 78 819
[35] Cao M, Liu T, Gao S, Sun G, Wu X, Hu C and Wang Z L 2005 Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 44 4197
[36] Kim C H, Chun H J, Kim D S, Kim S Y, Park J, Moon J Y, Lee G, Yoon J, Jo Y, Jung M H, Jung S I and Lee C J 2006 Appl. Phys. Lett. 89 223103
[37] de Faria D L A, Venancio Silva S and de Oliveira M T 1997 Journal of Raman spectroscopy 28 873
[38] Fu Y Y, Wang R M, Xu J, Chen J, Yan Y, Narlikar A V and Zhang H 2003 Chem. Phys. Lett. 379 373
[39] Beattie I R and Gilson T R 1970 J. Chem. Soc. A 980
[40] McCarty K F 1988 Solid State Commun. 68 799
[41] Bersani D, Lottici P P and Montenero A 1999 Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 30 355
[42] Zhang S S L and Zhang S 2012 Phys. Rev. B 86 214424
[43] Mellnik A R, Lee J S, Richardella A, Grab J L, Mintun P J, Fischer M H, Vaezi A, Manchon A, Kim E A, Samarth N and Ralph D C 2014 Nature 511 449
[44] Wang Y, Deorani P, Banerjee K, Koirala N, Brahlek M, Oh S and Yang H 2015 Phys. Rev. Lett. 114 257202
[45] Wang Y, Ramaswamy R and Yang H 2018 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 51 273002
[46] Wang Y, Deorani P, Qiu X, Kwon J H and Yang H 2014 Appl. Phys. Lett. 105 152412
[47] Hahn C, de Loubens G, Naletov V V, Ben Youssef J, Klein O and Viret M 2014 Europhys. Lett. 108 57005
[48] Wang H, Du C, Hammel P C and Yang F 2014 Phys. Rev. Lett. 113 097202
[49] Nogués J and Schuller I K 1999 J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 192 232
[50] Shi G, Wang F, Tan H R, Zhao S, Liu Y, Yang D, Lee K, Pu Y, Yang S and Soumyanarayanan A 2023 Phys. Rev. Appl. 19 034039
[51] LinW, Chen K, Zhang S and Chien C 2016 Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 186601
[52] Hou D, Qiu Z, Barker J, Sato K, Yamamoto K, Vélez S, Gomez-Perez J M, Hueso L E, Casanova F and Saitoh E 2017 Phys. Rev. Lett. 118 147202
[53] Qiu Z, Li J, Hou D, Arenholz E, N’Diaye A T, Tan A, Uchida K I, Sato K, Okamoto S, Tserkovnyak Y, Q Q Z and Saitoh E 2016 Nat. Commun. 7 12670
[54] Prakash A, Brangham J, Yang F and Heremans J P 2016 Phys. Rev. B 94 014427
[55] Yang P, Shao Q, Yu G, He C, Wong K, Lu X, Zhang J, Liu B, Meng H, He L, Wang K L and Xu Y 2020 Appl. Phys. Lett. 117 082409
[56] Zhang W, Han W, Jiang X, Yang S H and SP Parkin S 2015 Nat. Phys. 11 496
[57] Pai C F, Ou Y, Vilela-Leao L H, Ralph D C and Buhrman R A 2015 Phys. Rev. B 92 064426
[58] Xing W, Qiu L, Wang X, Yao Y, Ma Y, Cai R, Jia S, Xie X and Han W 2019 Phys. Rev. X 9 011026
[59] Das S, Ross A, Ma X X, Becker S, Schmitt C, Van Duijn F, Galindez- Ruales E F, Fuhrmann F, Syskaki M A, Ebels U, Baltz V, Barra A L, Chen H Y, Jakob G, Cao S X, Sinova J, Gomonay O, Lebrun R and Kläui M 2022 Nat. Commun. 13 6140
[60] deWal D K, Iwens A, Liu T, Tang P, Bauer G E and vanWees B J 2023 Phys. Rev. B 107 1 |
| No Suggested Reading articles found! |
|
|
Viewed |
|
|
|
Full text
|
|
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
|
Cited |
|
|
|
|
Altmetric
|
|
blogs
Facebook pages
Wikipedia page
Google+ users
|
Online attention
Altmetric calculates a score based on the online attention an article receives. Each coloured thread in the circle represents a different type of online attention. The number in the centre is the Altmetric score. Social media and mainstream news media are the main sources that calculate the score. Reference managers such as Mendeley are also tracked but do not contribute to the score. Older articles often score higher because they have had more time to get noticed. To account for this, Altmetric has included the context data for other articles of a similar age.
View more on Altmetrics
|
|
|
