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We study the nonequilibrium Seebeck spin transport across metal-magnetic insulator interfaces. The conjugate-converted thermal-spin transport is assisted by the exchange interaction at the interface, between conduction electrons in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 Jie Ren

We develop a theory for spin transport in magnetic metals that treats the contribution of magnons and electrons on equal footing. As an application we consider thermally-driven spin injection across an interface between a magnetic metal and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Maarten Beens , Joseph P. Heremans , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , R. A. Duine

We investigated the effect of an external magnetic field on the diffusive spin transport by magnons in the magnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG), using a non-local magnon transport measurement geometry. We observed a decrease in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 L. J. Cornelissen , B. J. van Wees

We theoretically consider the spin Seebeck effect, the charge Seebeck coefficient, and the thermoelectric figure of merit in superconducting hybrid structures including either magnetic textures or intrinsic spin-orbit coupling. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Marianne Etzelmüller Bathen , Jacob Linder

We have fabricated bulk nanostructured ferrimagnetic materials with different grain sizes by sintering ball-milled Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) nanoparticles and measured the grain-size dependence of the thermal conductivity and spin Seebeck thermopower.…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-28 Asuka Miura , Takashi Kikkawa , Ryo Iguchi , Ken-ichi Uchida , Eiji Saitoh , Junichiro Shiomi

The nonlocal transport of thermally generated magnons not only unveils the underlying mechanism of the spin Seebeck effect, but also allows for the extraction of the magnon relaxation length ($\lambda_m$) in a magnetic material, the average…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-29 J. Shan , L. J. Cornelissen , J. Liu , J. Ben Youssef , L. Liang , B. J. van Wees

We develop a theory of the spin battery effect in superconductor/ferromagnetic insulator (SC/FI) systems taking into account the magnetic proximity effect. We demonstrate that the spin-energy mixing enabled by the superconductivity leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Risto Ojajärvi , Tero T. Heikkilä , P. Virtanen , M. A. Silaev

The key physics of the spin valve involves spin-polarized conduction electrons propagating between two magnetic layers such that the device conductance is controlled by the relative magnetization orientation of two magnetic layers. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 H. Wu , L. Huang , C. Fang , B. S. Yang , C. H. Wan , G. Q. Yu , J. F. Feng , H. X. Wei , X. F. Han

The longitudinal spin-Seebeck effect (LSSE) has been investigated for Pt/yttrium iron garnet (YIG) bilayer systems. The magnitude of the voltage induced by the LSSE is found to be sensitive to the Pt/YIG interface condition. We observed…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-04 Z. Qiu , D. Hou , K. Uchida , E. Saitoh

We present a study of the transport properties of thermally generated spin currents in an insulating ferrimagnetic-antiferromagnetic-ferrimagnetic trilayer over a wide range of temperature. Spin currents generated by the spin Seebeck effect…

The longitudinal spin-Seebeck effect (SSE) in magnetic insulator$|$non-magnetic metal heterostructures has been theoretically studied primarily with the assumption of an isotropic interfacial exchange coupling. Here, we present a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Bowen Ma , Benedetta Flebus , Gregory A. Fiete

Using the spin Seebeck effect (SSE), we study the propagation distance of thermal spin currents inside a magnetic insulator thin film in the short-range regime. We disambiguate spin currents driven by temperature and chemical potential…

Our joint theoretical and computer experimental study of heat-to-spin conversion reveals that noncollinear antiferromagnetic insulators are promising materials for generating magnon spin currents upon application of a temperature gradient:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Alexander Mook , Robin R. Neumann , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

We evaluated the thermoelectric properties of longitudinal spin Seebeck devices by using ten different transition metals (TMs). Both the intensity and sign of spin Seebeck coefficients were noticeably dependent on the degree of the inverse…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-14 M. Ishida , A. Kirihara , H. Someya , K. Uchida , S. Kohmoto , E. Saitoh , T. Murakami

The temperature and yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) thickness dependences of the spin Peltier effect (SPE) have been investigated using a Pt/YIG junction system at temperatures ranging from room temperature to the Curie temperature of YIG by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Atsushi Takahagi , Takamasa Hirai , Ryo Iguchi , Keita Nakagawara , Hosei Nagano , Ken-ichi Uchida

While recent experiments on the spin Seebeck effect have revealed the decisive role of the magnon contribution to the heat current $Q$ in hybrid systems containing thin ferromagnetic layers, the available acoustic mismatch theory does not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Valerij A. Shklovskij , Volodymyr V. Kruglyak , Ruslan V. Vovk , Oleksandr V. Dobrovolskiy

In recent years, new spin-dependent thermal effects have been discovered in ferromagnets, stimulating a growing interest in spin caloritronics, a field that exploits the interaction between spin and heat currents. Amongst the most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Juan F. Sierra , Ingmar Neumann , Jo Cuppens , Bart Raes , Marius V. Costache , Sergio O. Valenzuela

We performed measurements of Py/Cu and Py/Ag lateral spin valves as function of injection current direction and magnitude. Above a 'critical' current, there is an unexpected dependence of spin injection on current direction. Positive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-16 Mikhail Erekhinsky , Fèlix Casanova , Ivan K. Schuller , Amos Sharoni

Magnons, the quanta of spin angular momentum, can be excited in magnetic insulators by spin-flip scattering processes originated from currents applied to a heavy metal overlayer. The efficiency to generate non-equilibrium magnons across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Haripriya Madathil , Pranav Pradeep , Paul Nöel , Saül Vélez

The development of spintronics and spin-caloritronics devices need efficient generation, detection and manipulation of spin current. The thermal spin current from spin-Seebeck effect has been reported to be more energy efficient than the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-02 Ravindra G Bhardwaj , Paul C Lou , Sandeep Kumar