Artificial spin ices are periodic arrangements of interacting nanomagnets which allow investigating emergent phenomena in the presence geometric frustration. Recently, it has been shown that artificial can be used as building blocks for creating functional materials, such magnonic crystals. We investigate magnetization dynamics a system exhibiting anisotropic magnetostatic interactions owing to...

The price of energy to separate tightly bound electron-hole pair (or charge-transfer state) and extract freely movable charges from low-mobility materials represents fundamental losses for many low-cost photovoltaic devices. In bulk heterojunction (BHJ) polymer solar cells (PSCs), approximately 50% of the total efficiency lost among all energy loss pathways is due to the photogenerated charge c...

Eigenvalue equations and expressions of EM fields for volume modes in an anisotropic single-negative slab with tensor material parameters is presented. By the comparison with the eigenvalue equation of surface modes along single-negative slab with negative scalar permeability, the validity of the present study is confirmed. We have also made clear which elements of the material parameter tensor...

A two-dimensional micromagnetic model is extended to support simulation of films with non-uniform thickness. Zeeman and crystalline anisotropy energies of each cell scale with the cell thickness, while the exchange energy of a pair of neighbor cells scales by a weight dependent on the thicknesses of both cells. The self-magnetostatic energy is computed by scaling the moment of each cell by its ...

Magnetostatic coupling of Permalloy disk chains were studied by magnetic-force microscopy. The annihilation process occurs at the center of the chain, while nucleation initiates at the edge of the chain. The switching is strongly coupled along the chain direction.

Magnetic structure of single crystalline TmB4 has been studied by magnetization, magnetoresistivity, and specific heat measurements. A complex phase diagram with different antiferromagnetic phases was observed below TN1 = 11.7 K. Besides the plateau at half-saturated magnetization (1/2 MS), also plateaus at 1/9, 1/8 and 1/7 of MS were observed as a function of applied magnetic field B ‖ c. From...

The paper deals with the analysis of clusters’ size in diverse magnetization states of a system of ferromagnetic particles organized in a perfect 2D array with all the anisotropy axes perpendicular to the plane (perpendicular medium) following the evolution of the clusters in correlation with various parameters like applied field or interaction strength. We present numerical simulations for a t...