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Title: Optical diode effect at spin-wave excitations in the room-temperature multiferroic BiFeO3.

Abstract

The ability to read and write a magnetic state current-free by an electric voltage would provide a huge technological advantage. Dynamic or optical ME effects are equally interesting, because they give rise to unidirectional light propagation as recently observed in low-temperature multiferroics. This phenomenon, if realized at room temperature, would allow the development of optical diodes which transmit unpolarized light in one, but not in the opposite, direction. Here, we report strong unidirectional transmission in the room-temperature multiferroic BiFeO3 over the gigahertz-terahertz frequency range. The supporting theory attributes the observed unidirectional transmission to the spin-current-driven dynamic ME effect. Our findings are an important step toward the realization of optical diodes, supplemented by the ability to switch the transmission direction with a magnetic or electric field.

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 [1];  [2];  [1];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [2]
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  1. Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary)
  2. National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn (Estonia)
  3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  4. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
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Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1215585
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1215777
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; FG02-07ER46382
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 115; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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Kezsmarki, I., Nagel, U., Bordacs, S., Fishman, Randy Scott, Lee, Jun Hee, Yi, Hee Taek, Cheong, Sang-Wook, and Room, T. Optical diode effect at spin-wave excitations in the room-temperature multiferroic BiFeO3.. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.127203.
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Kezsmarki, I., Nagel, U., Bordacs, S., Fishman, Randy Scott, Lee, Jun Hee, Yi, Hee Taek, Cheong, Sang-Wook, & Room, T. Optical diode effect at spin-wave excitations in the room-temperature multiferroic BiFeO3.. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.127203
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Kezsmarki, I., Nagel, U., Bordacs, S., Fishman, Randy Scott, Lee, Jun Hee, Yi, Hee Taek, Cheong, Sang-Wook, and Room, T. Tue . "Optical diode effect at spin-wave excitations in the room-temperature multiferroic BiFeO3.". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.127203. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1215585.
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@article{osti_1215585,
title = {Optical diode effect at spin-wave excitations in the room-temperature multiferroic BiFeO3.},
author = {Kezsmarki, I. and Nagel, U. and Bordacs, S. and Fishman, Randy Scott and Lee, Jun Hee and Yi, Hee Taek and Cheong, Sang-Wook and Room, T.},
abstractNote = {The ability to read and write a magnetic state current-free by an electric voltage would provide a huge technological advantage. Dynamic or optical ME effects are equally interesting, because they give rise to unidirectional light propagation as recently observed in low-temperature multiferroics. This phenomenon, if realized at room temperature, would allow the development of optical diodes which transmit unpolarized light in one, but not in the opposite, direction. Here, we report strong unidirectional transmission in the room-temperature multiferroic BiFeO3 over the gigahertz-terahertz frequency range. The supporting theory attributes the observed unidirectional transmission to the spin-current-driven dynamic ME effect. Our findings are an important step toward the realization of optical diodes, supplemented by the ability to switch the transmission direction with a magnetic or electric field.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.127203},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 12,
volume = 115,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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