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  • 2010 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the understanding of dynamic magnetic excitations in confined magnetic structures, linear and nonlinear spinwave propagation phenomena, and his pioneering work  on  the development of space and timeresolved Brillouin light scattering technique
  • 2010 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the understanding of magnetic excitations, including linear and nonlinear spin waves

Overview

Burkard Hillebrands is affiliated with the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. Their research spans primarily the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Artificial Intelligence.

The main topics covered in their work encompass Magnetic properties of thin films, Quantum and electron transport phenomena, Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism, Mechanical and Optical Resonators, Magneto-Optical Properties and Applications, Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing, and Strong Light-Matter Interactions.

Hillebrands has an extensive list of publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters, Physical Review Letters, and the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.

Recent significant papers include:

  • Review on spintronics: Principles and device applications, 2020, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
  • The 2021 Magnonics Roadmap, 2021, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
  • Advances in Magnetics Roadmap on Spin-Wave Computing, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
  • Advances in coherent magnonics, 2021, Nature Reviews Materials
  • The 2024 magnonics roadmap, 2024, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Hillebrands include:

  • A. A. Serga
  • Philipp Pirro
  • Andrii V. Chumak
  • Vitaliy I. Vasyuchka
  • Morteza Mohseni

Throughout their career, Hillebrands has been recognized with professional distinctions such as the IEEE Fellow award in 2010, awarded for contributions to the understanding of magnetic excitations encompassing linear and nonlinear spin waves.

In the same year, they were also named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for contributions to the understanding of dynamic magnetic excitations in confined magnetic structures, linear and nonlinear spinwave propagation phenomena, and for pioneering work on the development of space- and time-resolved Brillouin light scattering technique.

Best Publications

  • Bose–Einstein condensation of quasi-equilibrium magnons at room temperature under pumping

    S. O. Demokritov;V. E. Demidov;O. Dzyapko;G. A. Melkov

  • Review on spintronics: Principles and device applications

    Atsufumi Hirohata;Keisuke Yamada;Yoshinobu Nakatani;Lucian Prejbeanu

  • Magnon transistor for all-magnon data processing

    Andrii V Chumak;Alexander A Serga;Burkard Hillebrands

  • Realization of spin-wave logic gates

    T. Schneider;A.A. Serga;B. Leven;B. Hillebrands

  • Brillouin light scattering studies of confined spin waves: linear and nonlinear confinement

    S.O. Demokritov;B. Hillebrands;A.N. Slavin

  • Realization of XNOR and NAND spin-wave logic gates

    T. Schneider;A.A. Serga;B. Leven;B. Hillebrands

  • Spin Dynamics in Confined Magnetic Structures III

    Burkard Hillebrands;André Thiaville

  • Spin-wave logical gates

    Mikhail Kostylev;A.A. Serga;T. Schneider;B. Leven

  • The 2021 Magnonics Roadmap.

    Anjan Barman;Gianluca Gubbiotti;S. Ladak;A. O. Adeyeye

  • Spin wave wells in nonellipsoidal micrometer size magnetic elements.

    J. Jorzick;S. O. Demokritov;B. Hillebrands;M. Bailleul

  • Magnonic crystals for data processing

    A V Chumak;A A Serga;B Hillebrands

  • Realization of a spin-wave multiplexer

    K. Vogt;F.Y. Fradin;J.E. Pearson;T. Sebastian;T. Sebastian

  • Effective dipolar boundary conditions for dynamic magnetization in thin magnetic stripes

    K. Yu. Guslienko;S. O. Demokritov;B. Hillebrands;A. N. Slavin

  • The 2017 Magnetism Roadmap

    D. Sander;Sergio O. Valenzuela;Sergio O. Valenzuela;D. Makarov;C.H. Marrows

  • The 2014 Magnetism Roadmap

    Robert L. Stamps;Stephan Breitkreutz;Johan Åkerman;Johan Åkerman;Andrii V. Chumak

  • Spin Pumping by Parametrically Excited Exchange Magnons

    C. W. Sandweg;Y. Kajiwara;A. V. Chumak;A. A. Serga

  • Spin-wave calculations for multilayered structures.

    Burkard Hillebrands

  • Micro-focused Brillouin light scattering: imaging spin waves at the nanoscale

    Thomas Sebastian;Katrin Schultheiss;Björn Obry;Burkard Hillebrands

  • Long-range spin Seebeck effect and acoustic spin pumping

    K. Uchida;H. Adachi;T. An;T. Ota

  • Magnon Spintronics : Fundamentals of Magnon-Based Computing

    Andrii V. Chumak

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Fassbender
Jürgen Fassbender Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Andrei Slavin
Andrei Slavin Oakland University
Eiji Saitoh
Eiji Saitoh University of Tokyo
Thomas J. Meyer
Thomas J. Meyer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Yasuo Ando
Yasuo Ando Tohoku University
Mikihiko Oogane
Mikihiko Oogane Tohoku University
Ken-ichi Uchida
Ken-ichi Uchida University of Tokyo
George I. Stegeman
George I. Stegeman University of Central Florida
Gerhard Jakob
Gerhard Jakob Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Claudia Felser
Claudia Felser Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids

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