  The characteristics of confined magnetoelastic waves in nanoscale
ferromagnetic magnetostrictive waveguides have been investigated by a
combination of analytical and numerical calculations. The presence of both
magnetostriction and inverse magnetostriction leads to the coupling between
confined spin waves and elastic Lamb waves. Numerical simulations of the
coupled system have been used to extract the dispersion relations of the
magnetoelastic waves as well as their mode profiles.
