Spin+Magnon-Control: Controlling interactions between magnons and plasmons (B07)

• Subject Area: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
• Term: from 2016 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 268565370

Project B07 investigates the emergent properties due to interactions between two collective excitations: plasmons (induced by optical near fields) and magnons. First, the influence of the magnetic field and the presence of a magnetic material on plasmonic excitations in metallic magneto-plasmonic heterostructures will be studied. Second, plasmon-magnon interactions will be realized by exploiting the possibility of surface plasmons to focus light at the nano-scale, and by engineering magnon spectra through nano-patterning techniques.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 173: Spin+X: Spin in its collective environment
• Applicant Institution: Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Martin Aeschlimann; Professor Dr. Burkard Hillebrands; Privatdozent Dr. Evangelos Papaioannou, Ph.D.