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Nonreciprocal propagation of surface acoustic wave in Ni/LiNbO3

arXiv:1605.04058 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.020407

Abstract

We have investigated surface acoustic wave propagation in Ni/LiNbO hybrid devices. We have found the absorption and phase velocity are dependent on the sign of wave vector in a device, which indicates the nonreciprocal propagation characteristic of systems with time reversal and spatial inversion simultaneously broken symmetries. The nonreciprocity is reversed by the 180 rotation of magnetic field. Nonreciprocity seems largely dependent on the shape of ferromagnetic Ni film. The origin of these observations is ascribed to film shape dependent magnetoelastic coupling.

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