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Reconfigurable magnonics heats up

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Coupling electromagnetic waves to mechanical waves has led to a remarkable miniaturization of wireless communication technologies. Now, spin waves could provide us with technologies that are small and reprogrammable.

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Figure 1: Heated magnonic crystal.
Figure 2: Illustrations of static, dynamic and reconfigurable 1D magnonic crystals.

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I am grateful for support from the German Excellence Cluster 'Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)', the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre TRR80 'From electronic correlations to functionality' of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and C. Hohmann at NIM.

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