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We report the observation of magnon spin currents generated by the Spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in a bulk single crystal of the easy-plane antiferromagnet NiO. A magnetic field induces a non-degeneracy and thereby an imbalance in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Geert R. Hoogeboom , Bart J. van Wees

The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) is a phenomenon of thermoelectric generation that occurs within a device consisting of a bilayer of a metal and a ferromagnet. When Tb$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ (TbIG) is substituted for the ferromagnet, the effect…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-10 Michiyasu Mori , Bruno Tomasello , Timothy Ziman

The magnonic spin Seebeck effect is a key element of spin caloritronic, a field that exploits thermal effects for spintronic applications. Early studies were focused on investigating the steady-state nonequilibrium magnonic spin Seebeck…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , X. -G. Wang , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnaś , J. Berakdar

We investigate the thermoelectric properties of electrons at the interface of oxide heterostructure and in the presence of a multiferroic oxide with spiral spin order. We find there is no (spin) Hall current generated by the temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Chenglong Jia , Jamal Berakdar

The spin-Seebeck effect was recently discovered in a metallic ferromagnet and consists of a thermally generated spin distribution that is electrically measured utilizing the inverse spin Hall effect. Here this effect is reproduced…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-27 C. M. Jaworski , J. Yang , S. Mack , D. D. Awschalom , J. P. Heremans , R. C. Myers

The Dirac surface states of topological insulators offer a unique possibility for creating spin polarized charge currents due to the spin-momentum locking. Here we demonstrate that the control over the bulk and surface contribution is…

In this work we investigated thin films of the ferrimagnetic insulators YIG and NFO capped with thin Pt layers in terms of the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (LSSE). The electric response detected in the Pt layer under an out-of-plane…

We present a comprehensive study of the temperature (T) dependence of the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (LSSE) in Pt/EuO_{1-x} and Pt/La2NiMnO6 (LNMO) hybrid structures across their Curie temperatures (Tc). Both systems host…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Kingshuk Mallick , Aditya A. Wagh , Adrian Ionescu , Crispin H. W. Barnes , P. S. Anil Kumar

Following the theoretical approach by Xiao et al [Phys. Rev. B 81, 214418 (2010)] to the spin Seebeck effect, we calculate the mean value of the total spin current flowing through a normalmetal/ ferromagnet interface. The spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , S. Trimper , J. Berakdar

We derive expressions for the efficiency and figure of merit of two spin caloritronic devices based on the spin Seebeck effect (SSE), i.e., the generation of spin currents by a temperature gradient. The inverse spin Hall effect is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-18 Adam B. Cahaya , O. A. Tretiakov , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Antiferromagnetic insulators can become active spintronics components by controlling and detecting their dynamics via spin currents in adjacent metals. This cross-talk occurs via spin-transfer and spin-pumping, phenomena that have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Arne Brataas , Hans Skarsvåg , Erlend G. Tveten , Eirik Løhaugen Fjærbu

The field of magnonics attracts significant attention due to the possibility of utilizing information coded into the spin-wave phase or amplitude to perform computation operations on the nanoscale. Recently, spin waves were investigated in…

Conversion of thermal energy into magnonic spin currents and/or effective electric polarization promises new device functionalities. A versatile approach is presented here for generating and controlling open circuit magnonic spin currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Xi-guang Wang , L. Chotorlishvili , Guang-hua Guo , J. Berakdar

We present a theory of the spin Seebeck effect driven by subthermal non-local phonon heat transfer and spectral non-uniform temperature distribution. The theory explains the non-local behavior of the effect arising from the fact that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 K. S. Tikhonov , J. Sinova , A. M. Finkel'stein

In the last decades, collinear magnetic insulating systems have emerged as promising energy-saving information carriers. Their elementary collective spin excitations, i.e., magnons, can propagate for long distances bypassing the Joule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Benedetta Flebus

We investigate both theoretically and experimentally a gigantic enhancement of the spin Seebeck effect in a prototypical magnet LaY$_2$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ at low temperatures. Our theoretical analysis sheds light on the important role of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hiroto Adachi , Ken-ichi Uchida , Eiji Saitoh , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Saburo Takahashi , Sadamichi Maekawa

In this paper we employ non equilibrium thermodynamics of fluxes and forces to describe magnetization and heat transport. By the theory we are able to identify the thermodynamic driving force of the magnetization current as the gradient of…

We consider spin-polarized transport in a quantum spin Hall antidot system coupled to normal leads. Due to the helical nature of the conducting edge states, the screening potential at the dot region becomes spin dependent without external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 Sun-Yong Hwang , Rosa Lopez , Minchul Lee , David Sanchez

Research in spintronics often involves generation of heat in nanoscale magnetic systems. This heat generation can be intentional, as when studying effects created by an external applied temperature difference, or unintentional, coming as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Barry L Zink

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.…