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Thermoelectric devices at the nanoscale offer promising routes for on-chip refrigeration and waste-heat recovery, yet most semiconductor-based implementations suffer from limited tunability and narrow operational ranges. We introduce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Phillip Mercebach , Sun-Yong Hwang , Bo Lu , Björn Sothmann , Yukio Tanaka , Pablo Burset

We calculate the thermopower of monolayer graphene in various circumstances. First we show that experiments on the thermopower of graphene can be understood quantitatively with a very simple model of screening in the semiclassical limit. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-14 Aavishkar A. Patel , Subroto Mukerjee

We investigate transport and thermoelectric properties of hybrid systems based on a single-level quantum dot and one superconducting lead. The other lead is generally normal-metallic ferromagnet. In the latter case single-particle transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Piotr Trocha , Józef Barnaś

We demonstrate that the hybrid structures consisting of a superconducting layer with an adjacent spin-textured ferromagnet demonstrate the variety of equilibrium magnetoelectric effects originating from coupling between the conduction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-18 D. S. Rabinovich , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , M. A. Silaev

We report the superconducting properties of the Co/Pb/Co heterostructures with thin insulating interlayers. The main specific feature of these structures is the intentional oxidation of both superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) interfaces. We…

We study thermal and charge transport in a three-terminal setup consisting of one superconducting and two ferromagnetic contacts. We predict that the simultaneous presence of spin filtering and of spin- dependent scattering phase shifts at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-30 P. Machon , M. Eschrig , W. Belzig

The electronic valence state of Mn in Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3/La0.8Sr0.2MnO3 multiferroic heterostructures is probed by near edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy as a function of the ferroelectric polarization. We observe a temperature independent…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-13 C. A. F. Vaz , J. Hoffman , Y. Segal , J. W. Reiner , R. D. Grober , Z. Zhang , C. H. Ahn , F. J. Walker

We theoretically study the electrolyte Seebeck effect in the vicinity of a heated metal nanostructure, such as the cap of an active Janus colloid in an electrolyte, or gold- coated interfaces in optofluidic devices. The thermocharge…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-27 Aboubakry Ly , Arghya Majee , Alois Würger

We experimentally demonstrate the existence of magnetic coupling between two ferromagnets separated by a thin Pt layer. The coupling remains ferromagnetic regardless of the Pt thickness, and exhibits a significant dependence on temperature.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 W. L. Lim , N. Ebrahim-Zadeh , H. G. E. Hentschel , S. Urazhdin

An experimental protocol is presented that allows the entropy generated by spin-transfer to be measured. The effect of a strong spin-polarized current injected on a ferromagnetic nanostructure is investigated with focusing on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-05 J. -E. Wegrowe , Q. Anh Nguyen , T. L. Wade

Thermoelectric effects in spintronics are gathering increasing attention as a means of managing heat in nanoscale structures and of controlling spin information by using heat flow. Thermal magnons (spin-wave quanta) are expected to play a…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-27 Marius V. Costache , German Bridoux , Ingmar Neumann , Sergio O. Valenzuela

Thermoelectric (TE) properties of a single nanowire (NW) are investigated in a microlab which allows the determination of the Seebeck coefficient S and the conductivity {\sigma}. A significiant influence of the magnetization of a 70 nm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Rüdiger Mitdank , Martin Handwerg , Corinna Steinweg , William Töllner , Mihaela Daub , Kornelius Nielsch , Saskia F. Fischer

Heat-to-charge conversion efficiency of thermoelectric materials is closely linked to the entropy per charge carrier. Thus, magnetic materials are promising building blocks for highly efficient energy harvesters, as their carrier entropy is…

We study theoretically the thermodynamic properties and spin dynamics of a class of magnetic rings closely related to ferric wheels, antiferromagnetic ring systems, in which one of the Fe (III) ions has been replaced by a dopant ion to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Florian Meier , Daniel Loss

The spin Seebeck effect is studied across a charge insulating magnetic junction, in which thermal-spin conjugate transport is assisted by the exchange interactions between the localized spin in the center and electrons in metallic leads. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 Jie Ren , Jonas Fransson , Jian-Xin Zhu

Nematics with a broken polar symmetry is one of the fascinating recent discoveries in the field of soft matter. High spontaneous polarisation and the fluidity of the ferroelectric nematic $N_{\mathrm{F}}$ phase make such materials…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-05 Evangelia Zavvou , Melanie Klasen-Memmer , Atsutaka Manabe , Matthias Bremer , Alexey Eremin

We propose conceptually novel thermopile structures for the anisotropic magneto-Peltier effect (AMPE) to enhance its heating/cooling power. The cross-shaped thermopile, one of the representative AMPE-based thermopile structures, consists of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-27 Raja Das , Ken-ichi Uchida

The search for novel spintronic devices brings about new ways to control switching in magnetic thin-films. In this work we experimentally demonstrate a device based on thermoelectrically controlled exchange coupling. The read out signal…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-27 S. Andersson , V. Korenivski

We investigate transient spin-dependent thermoelectric signatures in a single-molecule magnet under the effect of a time-dependent voltage pulse. We model the system using nonequilibrium Green's functions and a generalized spin equation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Henning Hammar , Juan-David Vasquez Jaramillo , Jonas Fransson

Short-range magnetic correlations can significantly increase the thermopower of magnetic semiconductors, representing a noteworthy development in the decades-long effort to develop high-performance thermoelectric materials. Here, we reveal…