{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["9(1)"],"submitter":["Liu C"],"pubmed_abstract":["Recent years have witnessed a rapidly growing interest in exploring the use of spin waves for information transmission and computation toward establishing a spin-wave-based technology that is not only significantly more energy efficient than the CMOS technology, but may also cause a major departure from the von-Neumann architecture by enabling memory-in-logic and logic-in-memory architectures. A major bottleneck of advancing this technology is the excitation of spin waves with short wavelengths, which is a must because the wavelength dictates device scalability. Here, we report the discovery of an approach for the excitation of nm-wavelength spin waves. The demonstration uses ferromagnetic nanowires grown on a 20-nm-thick Y<sub>3</sub>Fe<sub>5</sub>O<sub>12</sub> film strip. The propagation of spin waves with a wavelength down to 50 nm over a distance of 60,000 nm is measured. The measurements yield a spin-wave group velocity as high as 2600 m s<sup>-1</sup>, which is faster than both domain wall and skyrmion motions."],"journal":["Nature communications"],"pagination":["738"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5821877"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Long-distance propagation of short-wavelength spin waves."],"pmcid":["PMC5821877"],"pubmed_authors":["Liao Z","Lei N","Heimbach F","Wu M","Chen J","Liu M","Xiao Y","Zhao W","Yu D","Liu T","Yu H","Xia K","Tu S","Gao P","Hu J","Zhang Y","Liu C","Chang H","Stueckler T"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Long-distance propagation of short-wavelength spin waves.","description":"Recent years have witnessed a rapidly growing interest in exploring the use of spin waves for information transmission and computation toward establishing a spin-wave-based technology that is not only significantly more energy efficient than the CMOS technology, but may also cause a major departure from the von-Neumann architecture by enabling memory-in-logic and logic-in-memory architectures. A major bottleneck of advancing this technology is the excitation of spin waves with short wavelengths, which is a must because the wavelength dictates device scalability. Here, we report the discovery of an approach for the excitation of nm-wavelength spin waves. The demonstration uses ferromagnetic nanowires grown on a 20-nm-thick Y<sub>3</sub>Fe<sub>5</sub>O<sub>12</sub> film strip. The propagation of spin waves with a wavelength down to 50 nm over a distance of 60,000 nm is measured. The measurements yield a spin-wave group velocity as high as 2600 m s<sup>-1</sup>, which is faster than both domain wall and skyrmion motions.","dates":{"release":"2018-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2018 Feb","modification":"2026-07-08T03:09:13.543Z","creation":"2026-07-08T03:08:01.764Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5821877","cross_references":{"pubmed":["29467416"],"doi":["10.1038/s41467-018-03199-8"]}}