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Nanomagnonics around the corner

Two complementary strategies show how to control the spatial propagation of spin waves, thus promising complex and reconfigurable wiring in spin-wave-based circuits.

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Figure 1: Reconfigurable magnonic conduits realized in domain walls.
Figure 2: Reconfigurable magnonic conduits based on nanoresonators.

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Grundler, D. Nanomagnonics around the corner. Nature Nanotech 11, 407–408 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2016.16

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