Magnonics : from fundamentals to applications

Preface.- Spin-wave eigen-modes in a normally magnetized nano-pillar.- Bottom Up Magnonics: Magnetization Dynamics of Individual Nanomagnets.- Features of Chaotic Spin Waves in Magnetic Film Feedback Rings.- Magnon Coherent States and Condensates.- The role of angular momentum in ultrafast magnetization dynamics.- Photo-magnonics.- Probing Magnons by Spin-polarized Electrons.- Micromagnetic Simulations in Magnonics.- Spin waves, Spin Currents and Spin Seebeck Effect.- Spin pumping at Ytrium Iron Garnet interfaces.- Spin-Torque Microwave Detectors.- Spin-wave emission from spin-torque nano-oscillators and its control by microwave pumping.- Nano-contact spin-torque oscillators as magnonic building blocks.- Spin waves in artificial crystals and metamaterials created from nanopatterned Ni80Fe20 antidote lattices.- Spin Wave Band Structure in Two-Dimensional Magnonic Crystals.- Normal Mode Theory for Magnonic Crystal Waveguide.- The dynamic magnonic crystal: new horizons in artificial crystal based signal processing.- Summary and Outlook.