Static and dynamic behaviors of 1-D and 2-D magnonic crystals

Magnonic crystals (MCs), conceived as the magnetic microwave analog of photonic crystals, have received considerable attention recently due to their potential in a wide range of applications such as microwave resonators, filters and spin logic devices. Compared with conventional single component MCs, bi-component MCs consisting of arrays of one FM material in the matrix of another FM material shows advantageous due to an additional degree of freedom in tailoring spin wave properties. In this work, we present a systematic investigation of the static and dynamic behaviors of various types of 1-D and 2-D bi-component MCs.