Perspective: Ultrafast magnetism and THz spintronics

J Walowski, M Münzenberg - Journal of Applied Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
This year the discovery of femtosecond demagnetization by laser pulses is 20 years old. For
the first time, this milestone work by Bigot and coworkers gave insight directly into the time …

Spintronics with compensated ferrimagnets

J Finley, L Liu - Applied Physics Letters, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Magnetic information storage has been achieved by controlling and sensing the magnetic
moment orientation of nanoscale ferromagnets. Recently, there has been concentrated effort …

Ultrafast generation of skyrmionic defects with vortex beams: Printing laser profiles on magnets

H Fujita, M Sato - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Controlling electric and magnetic properties of matter by laser beams is actively explored in
the broad region of condensed matter physics, including spintronics and magneto-optics …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrafast investigation and control of Dirac and Weyl semimetals

CP Weber - Journal of Applied Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrafast experiments using sub-picosecond pulses of light are poised to play an important
role in the study and use of topological materials and, particularly, of the three-dimensional …

Ferrimagnetic Heusler tunnel junctions with fast spin-transfer torque switching enabled by low magnetization

C Garg, PC Filippou, Ikhtiar, Y Ferrante… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Magnetic random-access memory that uses magnetic tunnel junction memory cells is a high-
performance, non-volatile memory technology that goes beyond traditional charge-based …

Perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction with a strained Mn-based nanolayer

KZ Suzuki, R Ranjbar, J Okabayashi, Y Miura… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
A magnetic tunnel junction with a perpendicular magnetic easy-axis (p-MTJ) is a key device
for spintronic non-volatile magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM). Co-Fe-B alloy …

Narrow-band tunable terahertz emission from ferrimagnetic Mn3-xGa thin films

N Awari, S Kovalev, C Fowley, K Rode… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Narrow-band terahertz emission from coherently excited spin precession in metallic
ferrimagnetic Mn 3-x Ga Heusler alloy nanofilms has been observed. The efficiency of the …

Synthetic Antiferromagnet through an fcc Ru Spacer Utilized for Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

DL Zhang, C Sun, Y Lv, KB Schliep, Z Zhao, JY Chen… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
Magnetic materials that possess large bulk perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) are
essential for the development of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) used in future spintronic …

Mn-based hard magnets with small saturation magnetization and low spin relaxation for spintronics

S Mizukami, A Sakuma, A Sugihara, KZ Suzuki… - Scripta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
The pursuit of high saturation magnetization is an important area of hard magnetic materials
research. However, spintronics requires hard magnets exhibiting small saturation …

Parametric amplification of magnons in synthetic antiferromagnets

A Kamimaki, S Iihama, KZ Suzuki, N Yoshinaga… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We demonstrate the parametric amplification of an acoustic magnon mode induced by an
optical magnon mode in synthetic antiferromagnets, which was achieved by using the all …