Abstract

Metamaterials provide compelling capabilities to manipulate electromagnetic waves beyond the natural materials and can dramatically enhance both their electric and magnetic fields. The enhanced magnetic fields, however, are far less utilized than the electric counterparts, despite their great potential in spintronics. In this work, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a hybrid perfect metamaterial absorbers which combine the artificial metal/insulator/metal (MIM) metamaterial with the natural ferromagnetic material permalloy (Py) and realize remarkably larger spin rectification effect. Magnetic hot spot of the MIM metamaterial improves considerably electromagnetic coupling with spins in the embedded Py stripes. With the whole hybridized structure being optimized based on coupled-mode theory, perfect absorption condition is approached and an approximately 190-fold enhancement of spin-rectifying photovoltage is experimentally demonstrated at the ferromagnetic resonance at 7.1 GHz. Our work provides an innovative solution to harvest microwave energy for spintronic applications, and opens the door to hybridized magnetism from artificial and natural magnetic materials for emergent applications such as efficient optospintronics, magnonic metamaterials and wireless energy transfer.

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Title
Hybrid perfect metamaterial absorber for microwave spin rectification applications
Author
Qian Jie 1 ; Gou Peng 2 ; Pan, Hong 2 ; Zhu, Liping 2 ; Gui, Y S 3 ; C-M, Hu 3 ; An Zhenghua 4 

 Fudan University, State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Institute of Nanoelectronic Devices and Quantum Computing, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Department of Physics, Shanghai, China (GRID:grid.8547.e) (ISNI:0000 0001 0125 2443); University of Manitoba, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Winnipeg, Canada (GRID:grid.21613.37) (ISNI:0000 0004 1936 9609) 
 Fudan University, State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Institute of Nanoelectronic Devices and Quantum Computing, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Department of Physics, Shanghai, China (GRID:grid.8547.e) (ISNI:0000 0001 0125 2443) 
 University of Manitoba, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Winnipeg, Canada (GRID:grid.21613.37) (ISNI:0000 0004 1936 9609) 
 Fudan University, State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Institute of Nanoelectronic Devices and Quantum Computing, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Department of Physics, Shanghai, China (GRID:grid.8547.e) (ISNI:0000 0001 0125 2443); Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing, China (GRID:grid.41156.37) (ISNI:0000 0001 2314 964X); Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, Shanghai, China (GRID:grid.41156.37) 
Publication year
2020
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2471549707
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2020. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.