Lukas Liensberger was member of the Gross group at WMI as a master and Ph.D. student between 2016 and 2021.

Master Thesis: Magnon Hybrid Dynamics
Ph.D. Thesis: Spin-Orbit Torques and Magnetization Dynamics in Non-collinear Magnets

In his Ph.D. thesis, Lukas Liensberger was studying spatially resolved magnetization dynamics as well as investigating direct and inverse spin-orbit torques. He investigated the spin dynamics of novel magnon hybrid systems using electrical detection techniques in the microwave regime and spatially resolved optical spectroscopy methods. He observed exchange-enhanced ultrastrong magnon-magnon coupling in gadolinium iron garnet. He further demonstrated a tuneable cooperativity of the magnon-photon coupling between a 3D microwave cavity and the skyrmion host material Cu₂OSeO₃. He also developed novel optical spectroscopy techniques to spatially resolve the (non-)linear spin wave dynamics in a micropatterned magnonic device made of the low-damping ferromagnet CoFe.

Lukas left WMI in May 2021 to start a career in industry at ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology in Oberkochen.