Magnetic thin-film insulator with ultra-low spin wave damping for coherent nanomagnonics

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Yu, Haiming ^a   D'Allivy Kelly, O ^b   Cros, V ^b   Bernard, R ^b   Bortolotti, P ^b   Anane, A ^b   Brandl, F ^a   Huber, R ^a   Stasinopoulos, I ^a   Grundler, D ^a,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNITÉ MIXTE DE PHYSIQUE CNRS THALES   (France)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84923359425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06848     Document Type: Article

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