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Today, high-performance thermoelectric and thermomagnetic materials operating in the low-temperature regime, particularly below the boiling point of liquid nitrogen remain scarce. Most thermomagnetic materials reported to date exhibit a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-29 Antu Laha , Sarah Paone , Niraj Aryal , Qiang Li

We carry out a calculation of the phonon-drag contribution $S_g$ to the thermoelectric power of bulk semiconductors and quantum well structures for the first time using the balance equation transport theory extended to the weakly nonuniform…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. W. Wu , N. J. M. Horing , H. L. Cui

The thermoelectric properties of single- and polycrystalline FeGa3 are systematically investigated over a wide temperature range. At low temperatures, below 20 K, previously not known pronounced peaks in the thermal conductivity (400-800 W…

Ferromagnetic metallic oxides have potential applications in spincaloric devices which utilize the spin property of charge carriers for interconversion of heat and electricity through the spin Seebeck or the anomalous Nernst effect or both.…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-27 M. Manikandan , A. Ghosh , R. Mahendiran

While the thermoelectric figure of merit zT above 300K has seen significant improvement recently, the progress at lower temperatures has been slow, mainly limited by the relatively low Seebeck coefficient and high thermal conductivity. Here…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-17 Jiawei Zhou , Bolin Liao , Bo Qiu , Samuel Huberman , Keivan Esfarjani , Mildred S. Dresselhaus , Gang Chen

We consider the Coulomb drag between two layers of two-dimensional electronic gases subject to a strong magnetic field. We first focus on the case in which the electronic density is such that the Landau level filling fraction $\nu$ in each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Iddo Ussishkin , Ady Stern

We investigate the Nernst effect in a mesoscopic two-dimensional electron system (2DES) at low magnetic fields, before the onset of Landau level quantization. The overall magnitude of the Nernst signal agrees well with semi-classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Srijit Goswami , Christoph Siegert , Michael Pepper , Ian Farrer , David A. Ritchie , Arindam Ghosh

Bismuth is an archetypal semimetal with gigantic spin-orbit coupling and it has been a major source material for the discovery of seminal phenomena in solid state physics for more than a century. In recent years, spin current transports in…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-19 Guang-Yu Guo

The Hall effect can be extended by inducing a temperature gradient in lieu of electric field that is known as the Nernst (-Ettingshausen) effect. The recently discovered spin Nernst effect in heavy metals continues to enrich the picture of…

Elemental bismuth provides a rare opportunity to explore the fate of a three-dimensional gas of highly mobile electrons confined to their lowest Landau level. Coulomb interaction, neglected in the band picture, is expected to become…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-29 Huan Yang , Benoit Fauque , Liam Malone , Arlei B. Antunes , Zengwei Zhu , Ctirad Uher , Kamran Behnia

The underlying mechanism of the thermal Hall effect (THE) generated by phonons in a variety of insulators is yet to be identified. Here, we report on a sizeable thermal Hall conductivity in NiPS$_3$, a van der Waals stack of honeycomb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-02 Qingkai Meng , Xiaokang Li , Jie Liu , Lingxiao Zhao , Chao Dong , Zengwei Zhu , Liang Li , Kamran Behnia

We present a detailed study of the Nernst effect N$_{zx}$ in (TMTSF)$_2$PF$_6$ as a function of temperature, magnetic field magnitude and direction and pressure. As previously reported there is a large resonant-like structure as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Weida Wu , N. P. Ong , P. M. Chaikin

The transverse thermoelectric effect enables simpler, more flexible thermoelectric devices by generating electricity perpendicular to heat flow, offering promising solutions for waste heat recovery and solid-state cooling applications.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Yazhou Li , Jiaxing Liao , Jiajun Ma , Yuwei Zhang , Tao Li , Jialu Wang , Hangdong Wang , Hanjie Guo , Jianhui Dai , Yuke Li

The observation of a misalignment between the applied heat flux and the measured temperature gradient in insulating solids induced by magnetic field has become a subject of experimental investigation, theoretical speculation, and unsettled…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-06 Yu Ling , Benoît Fauqué , Kamran Behnia

Analogous to the Hall effect, the Nernst effect is the generation of a transverse voltage due to a temperature gradient in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The Nernst effect has promise for thermoelectric applications and as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-20 T. Asaba , V. Ivanov , S. M. Thomas , S. Y. Savrasov , J. D. Thompson , E. D. Bauer , F. Ronning

An understanding of high temperature superconductivity clearly requires the nature of its normal state, however the normal state of the cuprates is poorly understood. One possible explanation is the bipolaronic model where mobile, heavily…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 K. K. Lee

The Nernst effect, the generation of a transverse electric voltage in the presence of longitudinal thermal gradient, has garnered significant attention in the realm of magnetic topological materials due to its superior potential for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-23 Olajumoke Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel , Shuvankar Gupta , Xianglin Ke

The anomalous Nernst effect (ANE), a thermoelectric phenomenon in magnetic materials, has potential for novel energy harvesting applications because its orthogonal relationship between the temperature gradient and the electric field enables…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-15 Y. Sakuraba , K. Hyodo , A. Sakuma , S. Mitani

Magnon-drag is shown to dominate the thermopower of elemental Fe from 2 to 80 K and of elemental Co from 150 to 600 K; it is also shown to contribute to the thermopower of elemental Ni from 50 to 500 K. Two theoretical models are presented…

We report a measurement for the anomalous Nernst effects induced by a temperature gradient in [CoSiB/Pt] multilayer films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. The Nernst voltage shows a characteristic hysteresis which reflects the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-01 O. Kelekci , H. N. Lee , T. W. Kim , H. Noh