Magnetic materials are natural negative permeability materials, while nano-technology allows one to push their resonance frequency to sub-THz range in so called magnonic meta-materials.
In this primarily experimental PhD project, you will first explore design strategies for using the magnonic meta-materials in super-structures on even greater scale and then will use the designs to fabricate so called magnonic meta-meta-materials. You will develop novel processes and fabrication strategies to accomplish the non-trivial task. You will combine advanced nano-lithography tools and clean room technologies with elegant methods for guided self-assembly of nano-structures. You will also have opportunities to gain experience in advanced dynamical characterization and / or numerical modelling of the observed magnonic properties, should you wish to develop these skills.
The PhD project will offer rich additional opportunities for extended scientific collaborations with and visits to leading international experts in magnonics, within an academic exchange programme NoWaPhen funded by EU (FP7) to run through to 2014.