Attached Split Ring Resonator Cavity for Magnon Photon Coupling

TL;DR

This paper introduces a chip-scale planar cavity with an attached split ring resonator integrated with YIG structures, achieving strong magnon-photon coupling for hybrid quantum devices.

Contribution

It presents a numerically optimized cavity design and explores different YIG geometries to enhance magnon-photon coupling strength and cooperativity.

Findings

Full ring geometry achieves 115 MHz coupling and 13.10 cooperativity.

Half ring geometry has similar coupling strength with slightly higher cooperativity.

Disk geometry enables strongest interaction at lower magnetic fields with 135 MHz coupling.

Abstract

We present a chip scale planar cavity platform based on an attached split ring resonator (ASRR) integrated with yttrium iron garnet (YIG) structures to achieve strong magnon photon coupling in a compact hybrid system. The ASRR geometry was numerically optimized by tuning inter ring spacing, gap width, substrate thickness, and permittivity, resulting in a quality factor of Q = 190 at 5.48 GHz, enabling strong microwave magnetic field confinement and reduced radiative losses. The optimized cavity was coupled to YIG elements of three geometries: full ring, half ring, and disk. Full electromagnetic simulations show that the full ring geometry exhibits balanced performance with coupling strength 115 MHz and cooperativity 13.10, while the half ring shows a comparable coupling strength of 108 MHz and slightly higher cooperativity 13.50, despite edge induced demagnetizing effects. In contrast, the disk geometry couples at lower bias magnetic fields and achieves the strongest interaction (135 MHz, 25.30), enabled by improved microwave magnetic field overlap. These results demonstrate that geometry, rather than magnetic volume alone, is a key design parameter for tailoring magnon photon coupling, providing a practical framework for lithography compatible, on chip hybrid magnonic and quantum devices.