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Dissertation defense

  • Mr. Zhengyu Gao attended the mid-term examination on Ph.D.
  • Mr. Zui Tao attended the mid-term examination on Master degree.

Temperature- and field angular-dependent helixcal spin period characterized by magnetic dynamics in a chiral helimagnet MnNb3S6

Our new work entitled “Temperature- and field angular-dependent helixcal spin period characterized by magnetic dynamics in a chiral helimagnet MnNb3S6” is published in Sci. China-Phys. [Sci. China-Phys. Mech. Astron. 66, 217511 (2023)]. In this work, we perform the systematic ferromagnetic resonance experiment to investigate thoroughly the detailed dependence of magnetic dynamics corresponding to the nontrivial CSL in MnNb3S6 on the field magnitude, angle, and temperature. We find that chiral helimagnet MnNb3S6 exhibits a distinct field angular dependence of spin resonance in lowfield nontrivial CSL from the uniform FMR in high-field FFM. Then, we propose a modified Kittel model considering partial helix spin textures, which can successfully describe the experimentally observed spin dynamics of the low-field nontrivial CSL at different temperatures. Moreover, the modified Kittel model also enables us to extract temperature and field-dependent proportion of the helical spin texture and helical spin period ratio L(H)/L(0), like the sophisticated Lorentz micrograph technique used in most chiral helimagnets. The demonstrated method can generally be used as an alternative and easy-access approach to explore interesting magnetic dynamics not just in MnNb3S6 and other topologically nontrivial chiral magnets.

Current-driven magnetization dynamics and its correlation with magnetization configurations in perpendicularly magnetized tunnel junctions

Our new work entitled “Current-driven magnetization dynamics and its correlation with magnetization configurations in perpendicularly magnetized tunnel junctions” is published in J. Appl. Phys. [J. Appl. Phys. 132, 173906 (2022)]. In this work, we study spin-transfer-torque-driven magnetization dynamics of a perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction nanopillar. Through the combined investigations on spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance and microwave spectroscopy, it is found that the free layer (FL) and the weak pinned reference layer (RL) exhibit distinct dynamic behaviors. First, frequency vs field dispersion for the FL and RL shows an opposite trend as the field varies. Second, the FL can support a single spin-wave (SW) mode for both parallel and antiparallel configurations, while the RL exhibits spin-wave excitation only for the antiparallel state. Those two SW modes coexist at the antiparallel state, and their oscillation frequency exhibits a crossover phenomenon with increasing the external magnetic field, which could be helpful in the mutual synchronization of auto-oscillations for SW-based neuromorphic computing.