Spintronic detectors

19.06.2023

Physics and applications of spintronic detectors

We study linear and nonlinear phenomena in spintronic detectors of various types including detectors based on ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. We concentrate our efforts on the theoretical and numerical investigation of the detector operation regimes and their electrodynamic properties. We also do the R@D of microwave and (sub-)terahertz devices based on spintronic detectors or their arrays, and do the optimization of the device’s performance.

We predicted and studied several unconventional non-resonant regimes of operation of spintronic detectors with the out-of-plane precessing magnetic moment for the case of detectors biased by a DC magnetic field and field-free detectors with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. We did R@D of microwave and terahertz-frequency frequency detectors and spectrum analyzers based on current-driven spintronic nanosctructures.

Contact:

Prof. Oleksandr Prokopenko, oleksandr.prokopenko@knu.ua

Projects:

  • The President’s of Ukraine grant for competitive projects # F74/150-2017, “Fast frequency-selective microwave devices based on spintronic magnetic nanostructures” from the State Fund for Fundamental Research of Ukraine.

  • The President’s of Ukraine grant for competitive projects # F84/176-2019, “Ultra-fast devices for generation, detection and processing of electromagnetic signals based on antiferromagnetic spintronic nanostructures” from the State Fund for Fundamental Research of Ukraine.

  • NATO SPS grant # G5792, “L10-ordered Mn-based Spintronic Devices for Microwave Detection and Energy Harvesting Applications”.

Selected publications:

  • Physical Review Applied (2020) 14, 024043

  • Journal of Applied Physics (2020) 127, 063905

  • AIP Advances (2021) 11, 025234

  • IEEE Magnetics Letters (2021) 12, 4502205

Spintronic detectors