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Ensembles of parallel nanowires, consists of the parts from different ferro-magnetic metals (for example-FeNi/Co/FeNi) were obtained by method of template synthesis. It was shown that such samples could be the sources of electromagnetic emission – irradiation of Terahertz range. It could be detected when current passed through the contacts at the sample with these wires. The methods of obtaining nanowires was proposed (two-bath galvanic technique), formation of contact layers at the surface (parallel narrow strips of metal) were proposed. The features of these radiation were investigated–it‘s threshold character, it‘s non-thermal origin and spatial distribution. The calculation was also presented, which demonstrated possibility of detecting of Terahertz irradiation, using ensemble of such nanowires, included ferro-magnetic metal and anti-ferromagnetic metal.

The operation of a spin-injection emitter of electromagnetic oscillations with a Ni/NiO/Fe magnetic tunnel junction was first investigated. Using a nonconducting NiO spacer in a magnetic junction, the effect of the potential difference at the interface between magnetic layers on the efficiency of spin-injection emitters is determined. A model of the investigated emitter is theoretically described and the efficiencies of the emitters with a magnetic tunnel junction and a magnetic junction without an Ni/Fe spacer are experimentally compared. The possibility of enhancing the efficiency of the spin-injection emitter by using the magnetic tunnel junction is demonstrated.

Taking into account the electron spin mobility, the paper considers the numerical solution to the equation for nonequilibrium spin polarization at the boundary of a magnetic contact with a current formed by two ferromagnets. The frequencies of spin injection radiation are calculated. It is shown that at a certain current density exceeding the threshold value, these frequencies lie in the terahertz frequency range. It was found that for the same terahertz frequency range, even for small values of the difference in the mobility of electrons with spin up and down, the current density can be two orders of magnitude lower than the current density with the same mobility.

Taking into account the difference in the mobilities of electrons with different spin projections, the frequencies of spin-injection radiation in the current-carrying magnetic contact formed by two ferromagnets are calculated. It is shown that these frequencies are in the terahertz range at a certain current density exceeding the threshold value, and the current density required to generate terahertz radiation can be, even at small values of the electron mobility difference, two orders of magnitude less than that in the absence of the electron mobility difference. The effect of the spin polarization ratio of ferromagnets that form a magnetic junction on the radiation frequency is analyzed.

Results are presented from studying the effect a jump in potential has on the modes of operation of different magnetic junctions, including the Ni/NiO/Fe tunnel magnetic junction. The difference between the effectiveness of radiation in them is explained by the effect of jumps in potential have on the formation of Fermi quasi-levels in spin-energy sub-bands.

An original equation for nonequilibrium spin polarization in magnetic junctions based on dynamic equations for magnetic moment was obtained. Spatial nonuniformity of the distribution of carriers is taken into account in the equations, and the magnetic moment is averaged over the ensemble of nonequilibrium spin-injected electrons. The solution to the dynamic equations for the magnetic moment is used to estimate the probability of spin-flip electron transitions upon spin injection, and the solution to the equation for the nonequilibrium spin polarization in magnetic junctions is used to calculate frequencies of photon emission or absorption at energies corresponding to the energy of effective exchange splitting of spin subbands.

Operating modes of terahertz (THz) generators with “rod–film” magnetic junctions formed by a Fe rod with one pointed end with a diameter of 10–50 nm and various nanometer-thick (single-layer and multilayer) Со films are studied. It is demonstrated that the efficiency of the THz radiation increases (due to an increase in the current density) if the thickness of a single-layer film decreases to the point when it becomes discontinuous (ultrathin) while retains its conductivity. If a multilayer structure with several such films separated by nonmagnetic conductive layers is used, the radiation power can also be increased.

The observation of the stimulated terahertz radiation in magnetic junctions at the room temperature resulting from the current injection of nonequilibrium spins is reported. Contacts between two ferromagnetic layers and between a ferromagnetic and an antiferromagnetic layer are investigated. As the current is increased, first, a narrow isolated radiation peak at terahertz frequencies is observed, which is analogous to the laser peak; then, the peak broadens and its intensity increases by more than an order of magnitude.

The possibility of generation of terahertz electromagnetic waves by the current in a planar structure composed of metalferromagnetic nanoparticles imbedded into an antiferromagnetic medium, is considered.

Fundamentally new devices for the generation of terahertz waves due to the effect of the spin-polarized current in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic metal structures (magnetic junctions) are considered. The spin injection and the sd exchange and its effect on the interaction with electromagnetic waves play the main role in such devices. The effects that are induced by the polarized current in the antiferromagnetic materials (exchange instability, induced magnetization, and spin-injection antiferromagnetic resonance) are discussed. The principles and effects of the generation of the terahertz electromagnetic oscillations are considered, and the characteristics of the experimental prototypes of the corresponding devices are analyzed.

The magnetostatic field distribution in a structure formed from a ferromagnetic (FM) rod and thin FM film is numerically calculated. The effective terahertz radiation was previously discovered in such a structure in the presence of a current. It is shown that nanodimensional sections of the boundary between the lateral surface of the rod and the surface of the film can be a source of radiation. On these sections, the magnetostatic field changes its direction, a circumstance that provides for conditions for radiative transitions of electrons.

A spin-injection oscillator in the pulsed regime is studied for the first time at different time parameters of current pulses using an opto-acoustic transducer in the absence of chopper. The reciprocity principle is violated when the direction of current in the pulse is reversed in the pulsed regime of the terahertz generation. The radiation signal of the spin-injection emitter is proportional to the number of charges that are injected by a current pulse and does not depend on the energy that is released in the presence of the pulsed current flow.

Spin injection mechanisms for radiation and detection of terahertz waves based on magnetic nano junction are considered. High efficiency of terahertz radiation is theoretically explained and the method of the detection of this radiation is offered. The device of the spin injected terahertz radiators is presented.

The spin-injection emission in a ferromagnetic junction at terahertz frequencies is theoretically analyzed. It is demonstrated that the efficiency of the emission caused by the sd-exchange interaction of the injected spin in which the electromagnetic field is involved strongly depends on the orientation angle of the magnetization of the active region relative to the magnetization direction of the injecting region. The fact that the calculated radiation frequency and power are close to the experimental results shows that the sd-exchange emission must be taken into account in the interpretation of the observed terahertz emission in magnetic junctions.

Current flow in the structure consisting of a hard-magnetic ferromagnetic rod (hardened steel) with a diameter of up to 100 μm that contacts a thin (10–100 nm) ferromagnetic (FeMn) film is studied at room temperature. Effective magnetization is induced in the FeMn film in the presence of the spin-polarized current in spite of the absence of the intrinsic magnetization. The terahertz radiation that is detected in this work is caused by the precession of the induced magnetization. The emission is interpreted using the recent theoretical predictions on the effect of the sd exchange on the lattice dynamics of antiferromagnetic layer.

A method for the measurement and identification of the radiation frequencies of the spin-injection oscillator in the terahertz frequency range using a diffraction grating is developed and experimentally implemented. For the system consisting of a ferromagnetic rod (Fe) and nanosized ferromagnetic film (Fe3O4 with a thickness of up to 100 nm), the thermal and dynamic components of the radiation that is induced by the current flow are separated. The diffraction peaks at a frequency of about 9.6 THz and a band of 37% at a level of 3 dB and at a frequency of 43.5 THz are demonstrated. It is shown that the intensity of each signal is significantly higher than the thermal background level.

The response of a ferromagnet-antiferromagnet junction to a high-frequency magnetic field is calculated as a function of the spin-polarized current density through the junction. Conditions are chosen under which the response is zero in absence of such a current. It is shown that increasing in the current density leads to proportional increase in the resonance frequency and resonant absorption. A principal possibility is indicated of using ferromagnet-antiferromagnet junction as a terahertz radiation detector.

The spin-injection emission of the system that consists of a nonmagnetic conducting rod and two-layer planar heteroepitaxial structure formed by thin metal and magnetite films is experimentally studied. The electromagnetic emission in the terahertz range is demonstrated for the first time due to the creation of the nonequilibrium population of the spin energy subbands (relatively low current densities of about 105 A/cm2 are needed at room temperature).

The energy efficiency of the spin-injection emitter based on the rod-film ferromagnetic structure with a point contact between the components in the terahertz frequency range is experimentally estimated. The film material substantially affects the efficiency. A concentrator of magnetic flux is proposed for an increase in the efficiency. The experimental estimations allow the quantum yield of the emitter that is greater than unity. This result indicates significant contribution of the stimulated radiative transitions.

Results of numerical simulation of switching of a magnetic transition induced by a spin-polarized current pulse in the presence of an external magnetic field for a current density and a field strength that are lower than the corresponding threshold values are presented. The magnetic field regenerates the system and drives it to the threshold of an orientation phase transition, which simplifies exchange switching induced by a current pulse. This switching is characterized by the same locality as the exchange interaction, i.e., it is local at atomic lengths. It is demonstrated that there exists the possibility of switching with a controllable delay with respect to the current pulse.

Properties are discussed of a ferromagnetic junction in the form of a rod contacting with a film. Very high current density of the order of j ∼ 109 A/cm2 may be achieved in the contact region that can lead to inversion of population of the spin energy subbands. The inversion depends strongly on the direction of the current (forward or backward). We prepared experimentally a rod-to-film structure and investigated high density current flowing through it. Current dependent radiation has been observed by means of a THz receiver, the radiation intensity being different for forward and backward currents. It shows that the radiation includes not only thermal contribution but also non-thermal (spin-injection) one.

The distribution of the spin polarization of conduction electrons is calculated under the conditions for the spin injection from a probe to a ferromagnetic film in the presence of current. It is demonstrated that the main parameters that determine the deviation of the spin polarization from equilibrium are the current density and spin polarization of the probe material, whereas the ratio of the probe diameter to the spin diffusion length weakly affects the result in certain ranges. The population inversion of the spin subbands can be reached at distances of about spin diffusion length from the probe-film interface.

The dependence of the anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMS) of the single-crystal Fe(001) film grown with the aid of the pulsed laser evaporation on the direction and magnitude of the external magnetic field is analyzed. Three ranges of magnetic fields with different types of variation in AMS with the direction of magnetic field are revealed. The discontinuities of resistance and the hysteresis are demonstrated in a certain range of magnetic fields. The anisotropy field is estimated using the experimental results.

The current in a system formed by a conducting microprobe and a thin-film layered structure is experimentally studied. The possibility of a stable current flow with a density of up to 3 × 106 A/cm2 is demonstrated. It is found that, in order to attain an operation mode with a high current density, a sufficiently strong current (∼200 mA) must be first transmitted through the sample. The current distribution in the studied structure is calculated. The theoretical distribution is found to be in agreement with experimental results.

A perpendicular current that flows through a ferromagnetic nanojunction (a layered nanosized spinvalve structure containing two ferromagnetic metal layers separated by a spacer) is studied. The spacer is thick enough to prevent the exchange coupling of the layers in the absence of the current. On the other hand, the spacer is sufficiently thin and does not affect the spin polarization in the presence of the current. Conditions for a relatively high current-induced spin injection are found. Under such conditions, the concentration of the injected nonequilibrium spins can be equal to or even greater than the equilibrium concentration and several new effects are observed: The threshold of the exchange switching by the current decreases by several orders of magnitude owing to the matching of the spin resistances of the layers, the threshold additionally decreases in the presence of an external magnetic field in the vicinity of the orientational phase transition, and multistability emerges (several stable noncollinear orientations of magnetization correspond to a single value of the current). Switching appears to be irreversible.

We propose and discuss the mechanisms of terahertz sd exchange radiation during transmission of the spin-polarized current in a structure from a thin steel rod pressured to an ultrathin ferromagnetic film. The two mechanisms considered are quantum transitions between the quasi-Fermi levels in the film near the rod and precession of injected spins around the film magnetization.

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