Calculation of the spin-wave spectra in planar magnonic crystals with metallic overlayers.

Planar one-dimensional magnonic crystals of nanoscale lattice constant having different types of overlayers, dielectric and metallic, are studied. The dynamics of magnetization is described by the Landau-Lifshitz equation, which is solved using the plane-wave method. The calculations are performed with the nonuniform dynamic dipolar field. At the same time, the finite thickness of the studied structures is taken into account. New possibilities for shaping dispersion relations of spin waves and magnonic bandgaps in planar magnonic crystals by adding metallic/dielectric overlayers on the top of it are found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]