Future microwave communication and data storage technologies require creation of novel cost effective artificial materials available in macroscopic volumes or areas but with properties tailored at the nanoscale.
In this experimental PhD project, you will explore and study such nano-materials created by electro-deposition of nanowires into a thin porous matrix to form regular arrays of vertically aligned nanowires. You will explore how temporally shaped ultrafast optical pulses could be used to selectively excite spin wave resonances within the nanowires and advance methods for magnetic programming their high frequency response.
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.