{"id":116,"date":"2019-05-27T08:59:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T06:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/?page_id=116"},"modified":"2020-06-23T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T09:44:10","slug":"leeds-i-interaction-of-surface-acoustic-waves-and-magnetic-thin-films","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/?page_id=116","title":{"rendered":"Leeds I: Interaction of surface acoustic waves and magnetic thin films"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LEEDS_First_ESR-1024x305.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-332\" width=\"440\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LEEDS_First_ESR-1024x305.png 1024w, https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LEEDS_First_ESR-300x89.png 300w, https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LEEDS_First_ESR-768x229.png 768w, https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LEEDS_First_ESR-612x183.png 612w, https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LEEDS_First_ESR-1224x365.png 1224w, https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LEEDS_First_ESR-936x279.png 936w, https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LEEDS_First_ESR-1440x429.png 1440w, https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LEEDS_First_ESR-720x215.png 720w, https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LEEDS_First_ESR.png 1804w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Host:<\/strong> University of Leeds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Leeds, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Supervisor:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/eps.leeds.ac.uk\/physics\/staff\/4118\/dr-thomas-moore\">Thomas Moore<\/a>, John Cunningham<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scientific project:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A promising\nroute to low-power nanomagnetic data storage and computing devices is to apply\na voltage to a piezoelectric material that exerts strain on an adjacent\nmagnetic thin film and manipulates its properties via magnetoelasticity.&nbsp; As a proof-of-principle, we have used a\npiezoelectric to apply strain to a Co\/Pt multilayer, a magnetic thin film with\npreferred magnetization direction out-of-plane, and studied how strain modifies\nthe energy barrier for magnetization switching.&nbsp;\nFilms with magnetization out-of-plane are suitable for scaling to the smallest\ndevices and will be used in this project.&nbsp;\nUsing a time-varying strain, such as that provided by surface acoustic\nwaves has the potential for focusing or interference to manipulate magnetic\nspin structures.&nbsp; This project will\ncombine the internationally leading expertise in surface acoustic waves in the\nSchool of Electronic and Electrical Engineering with that in thin film\nmagnetism in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Leeds to study the\ninteraction of the surface acoustic waves with magnetic multilayer films such\nas Co\/Pt.&nbsp; The films will be\nsputter-grown onto substrates that support surface acoustic waves.&nbsp; Lithographic techniques will be used to\ndefine surface acoustic wave transducers and pattern magnetic films, and\nhigh-frequency transport and magnetic imaging techniques will be used to\ncharacterise them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host: University of Leeds Location: Leeds, UK Supervisor: Thomas Moore, John Cunningham Scientific project: A promising route to low-power nanomagnetic data storage and computing devices is to apply a voltage to a piezoelectric material that exerts strain on an adjacent magnetic thin film and manipulates its properties via magnetoelasticity.&nbsp; As a proof-of-principle, we have used&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/?page_id=116\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Leeds I: Interaction of surface acoustic waves and magnetic thin films&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/fullwidth.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions\/459"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magnefi.c2n.u-psud.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}