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Understanding the transfer of spin angular momentum is essential in modern magnetism research. A model case is the generation of magnons in magnetic insulators by heating an adjacent metal film. Here, we reveal the initial steps of this…

We calculate the phonon, electron and magnon temperature profiles in yttrium iron garnet/platinum bilayers by diffusive theory with appropriate boundary conditions, in particular taking into account interfacial thermal resistances. Our…

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 observe amplification of spin-wave packets propagating along a film of yttrium iron garnet (YIG) subject to a transverse temperature gradient. The amplification is attributed to a spin-transfer thermal torque created by spin currents…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-14 E. Padrón-Hernández , A. Azevedo , S. M. Rezende

We report temperature-dependent spin-Seebeck measurements on Pt/YIG bilayers and Pt/NiO/YIG trilayers, where YIG (Yttrium iron garnet, Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$) is an insulating ferrimagnet and NiO is an antiferromagnet at low temperatures. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-17 Arati Prakash , Jack Brangham , Fengyuan Yang , Joseph P. Heremans

The longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (LSSE) in Pt/Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ (YIG) junction systems has been investigated at various magnetic fields and temperatures. We found that the LSSE voltage in a Pt/YIG-slab system is suppressed by applying…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-19 Takashi Kikkawa , Ken-ichi Uchida , Shunsuke Daimon , Zhiyong Qiu , Yuki Shiomi , Eiji Saitoh

We performed temperature-dependent optical pump - THz emission measurements in Y3Fe5O12 (YIG)|Pt from 5 K to room temperature in the presence of an externally applied magnetic field. We study the temperature dependence of the spin Seebeck…

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

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 investigate the inverse spin Hall voltage of a 10nm thin Pt strip deposited on the magnetic insulators Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) and NiFe2O4 (NFO) with a temperature gradient in the film plane. We observe characteristics typical of the spin Seebeck…

The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) signal of magnon polarons in bulk-Y3Fe5O12 (YIG)/Pt heterostructures is found to drastically change as a function of temperature. It appears as a dip in the total SSE signal at low temperatures, but as the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-12 Zhong Shi , Qing Xi , Junxue Li , Yufei Li , Mohammed Aldosary , Yadong Xu , Jun Zhou , Shi-Ming Zhou , Jing Shi

We study the problem of magnetization and heat currents and their associated thermodynamic forces in a magnetic system by focusing on the magnetization transport in ferromagnetic insulators like YIG. The resulting theory is applied to the…

We employ the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of currents and forces to describe the heat transport caused by a spin current in a Pt/YIG bilayer. By starting from the constitutive equations of the magnetization currents in both Pt and YIG,…

Magnon propagation length in a ferrimagnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG) has been investigated by measuring and analyzing the YIG-thickness t_YIG dependence of the spin Peltier effect (SPE) in a Pt/YIG junction system. By means of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-28 Shunsuke Daimon , Ken-ichi Uchida , Naomi Ujiie , Yasuyuki Hattori , Rei Tsuboi , Eiji Saitoh

The observation of the spin Seebeck effect in insulators has meant a breakthrough for spin caloritronics due to the unique ability to generate pure spin currents by thermal excitations in insulating systems without moving charge carriers.…

The impact of the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (LSSE) on the magnon damping in magnetic-insulator/nonmagnetic-metal bilayers was recently discussed in several reports. However, results of those experiments can be blurred by multimode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Thomas Langner , Akihiro Kirihara , Alexander A. Serga , Burkard Hillebrands , Vitaliy I. Vasyuchka

Spin Seebeck effect (SSE) holds promise for new spintronic devices with low-energy consumption. The underlying physics, essential for a further progress, is yet to be fully clarified. This study of the time resolved longitudinal SSE in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 S. R. Etesami , L. Chotorlishvili , J. Berakdar

In this work, we present evidence for the existence of a magnonic current on the sub-picosecond time-scale in a ferrimagnetic bilayer and its effect on ultrafast spin dynamics. The ferrimagnet, GdFeCo, is a material known to undergo…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-16 Sergiu Ruta , Zuwei Fu , Thomas Ostler , Alexey Kimel , Roy Chantrell

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

Based on the solution of the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation discretized for a ferromagnetic chain subject to a uniform temperature gradient, we present a detailed numerical study of the spin dynamics with a focus particularly…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-07-15 S. R. Etesami , L. Chotorlishvili , A. Sukhov , J. Berakdar