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In general, it is difficult to access the thermal conductivity of thin insulating films experimentally just by electrical means. Here, we present a new approach utilizing the tunnel magneto-Seebeck effect (TMS) in combination with…

This letter provides evidence for intrinsic longitudinal spin Seebeck effects (LSSEs) that are free from the anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) caused by an extrinsic proximity effect. We report the observation of LSSEs in Au/Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) and…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-02-25 T. Kikkawa , K. Uchida , Y. Shiomi , Z. Qiu , D. Hou , D. Tian , H. Nakayama , X. -F. Jin , E. Saitoh

As spin caloritronic measurements become increasingly common techniques for characterizing material properties, it is important to quantify potentially confounding effects. We report measurements of the Nernst-Ettingshausen response from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Renjie Luo , Tanner J. Legvold , Liyang Chen , Douglas Natelson

We present a theory of the non-linearities of the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in a ferromagnetic nanowire at cryogenic temperatures. We adopt a microscopic quantum noise model based on a collection of two-level systems. At certain positions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Mehrdad Elyasi , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

The films of FeSe on substrates have attracted attention because of their unusually high-temperature (Tc) superconducting properties whose origins continue to be debated. To disentangle the competing effects of the substrate and interlayer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-21 Jia Shi , Duy Le , Volodymyr Turkowski , Naseem Ud Din , Tao Jiang , Qiang Gu , Talat S. Rahman

The growing market for sensors, internet of things, and wearable devices is fueling the development of low-cost energy-harvesting materials and systems. Film based thermoelectric (TE) devices offer the ability to address the energy…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-20 Nagaraj Nandihalli

We report on the observation of the spin Seebeck effect in antiferromagnetic MnF$_2$. A device scale on-chip heater is deposited on a bilayer of Pt (4 nm)/MnF$_2$ (110) (30 nm) grown by molecular beam epitaxy on a MgF$_2$ (110) substrate.…

We develop a low-temperature, long-wavelength theory for the interfacial spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in easy-axis antiferromagnets. The field-induced spin-flop (SF) transition of N\'eel order is associated with a qualitative change in SSE…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Derek Reitz , Junxue Li , Wei Yuan , Jing Shi , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The magnetization as a function of magnetic field showed hysteretic behavior at room temperature. According to the temperature dependence of the magnetization, the Curie temperature $(T_{C})$ is higher than 350 K. Ferromagnetic Mn-doped tin…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-19 Sushant Gupta , V. Ganesan , N. P. Lalla , Indra Sulania , B. Das

We have studied the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect in a polar antiferromagnet $\alpha$-Cu$_{2}$V$_{2}$O$_{7}$ in contact with a Pt film. Below the antiferromagnetic transition temperature of $\alpha$-Cu$_{2}$V$_{2}$O$_{7}$, spin Seebeck…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-06 Y. Shiomi , R. Takashima , D. Okuyama , G. Gitgeatpong , P. Piyawongwatthana , K. Matan , T. J. Sato , E. Saitoh

We report on the generation and transport of thermal spin currents in fully epitaxial {\gamma}-Fe$_2$O$_3$/NiO(001)/Pt and Fe$_3$O$_4$/NiO(001)/Pt trilayers. A thermal gradient, perpendicular to the plane of the sample, generates a magnonic…

We develop a microscopic theory of the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) at the interface of a bilayer system of a ferromagnetic insulator and graphene. We compare the tunneling spin current at the interface because of the SSE and the spin pumping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-25 Xin Hu , Yuya Ominato , Mamoru Matsuo

The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) refers to the generation of a spin current as a result of a temperature gradient in magnetic materials including insulators. The SSE is applicable to thermoelectric generation because the thermally generated…

We study the temperature dependence of the longitudinal spin-Seebeck effect (LSSE) in a yttrium iron garnet Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) / Pt system for samples of different thicknesses. In this system, the thermal spin torque is magnon-driven. The LSSE…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-30 Hyungyu Jin , Stephen R. Boona , Zihao Yang , Roberto C. Myers , Joseph P. Heremans

Longitudinal spin Seebeck effect has been investigated for an uniaxial antiferromagnetic insulator Cr2O3, characterized by a spin-flop transition under magnetic field along the c-axis. We have found that temperature gradient applied normal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-06 S. Seki , T. Ideue , M. Kubota , Y. Kozuka , R. Takagi , M. Nakamura , Y. Kaneko , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

Investigating the thermoelectric properties of ferromagnets is important for the development of future microelectronic devices for efficient energy conversion purposes. Ferromagnetic Mn$_5$Ge$_3$C$_x$ thin films with a Curie temperature up…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-08 R. Kraft , S. Srichandan , G. Fischer , C. Sürgers

Spin Seebeck effect refers to the magnonic thermal spin injection from a magnet into the adjacent heavy metal. A ferrimagnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG) is the material most studied for the spin Seebeck effect. Here, to account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Hayato Fukushima , Masanori Ichioka , Hiroto Adachi

Using thermal tensor-network approach, we investigate the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) of the triangular-lattice quantum antiferromagnet hosting spin supersolid phase. We focus on the low-temperature scaling behaviors of the normalized spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-17 Yuan Gao , Yixuan Huang , Sadamichi Maekawa , Wei Li

The spin-Seebeck effect (SSE) in ferromagnetic metals and insulators has been investigated systematically by means of the inverse spin-Hall effect (ISHE) in paramagnetic metals. The SSE generates a spin voltage as a result of a temperature…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-06-26 K. Uchida , T. Ota , H. Adachi , J. Xiao , T. Nonaka , Y. Kajiwara , G. E. W. Bauer , S. Maekawa , E. Saitoh

We study the transverse spin-Seebeck effect (SSE) on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) thin film, such as Bi$_2$Se$_3$, which is sandwiched between two normal metal leads. The temperature bias $\Delta T$ applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 Po-Hao Chang , Farzad Mahfouzi , Naoto Nagaosa , Branislav K. Nikolic