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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

A new measurement technique for the spin Seebeck effect is presented, wherein the normal metal layer used for its detection is exploited simultaneously as a resistive heater and thermometer. We show how the various contributions to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-12 Michael Schreier , Niklas Roschewsky , Erich Dobler , Sibylle Meyer , Hans Huebl , Rudolf Gross , Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein

The longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (LSSE) has been investigated in high-quality epitaxial CoFe2O4 (CFO) thin films. The thermally excited spin currents in the CFO films are electrically detected in adjacent Pt layers due to the inverse…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-17 Er-Jia Guo , Andreas Herklotz , Andreas Kehlberger , Joel Cramer , Gerhard Jakob , Mathias Klaeui

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

Using a three-current model for heat, spin-up and spin-down electrons, the thermodynamics of irreversible processes predicts that a temperature gradient gives rise to a spin current under the conditions used to measure what is called the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 Sylvain D. Brechet , Jean-Philippe Ansermet

We study the phenomenon of spin-current rectification in a one-dimensional XXZ spin chain in the presence of a thermal drive. In our model a pure spin current is generated by a temperature difference between two harmonic heat baths which in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Juzar Thingna , Jian-Sheng Wang

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

We report the observation of longitudinal spin Seebeck effects (LSSE) in an all-oxide bilayer system comprising an IrO$_2$ film and an Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ film. Spin currents generated by a temperature gradient across the…

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

The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) is known as the generation of 'spin voltage' in a magnet as a result of a temperature gradient. Spin voltage stands for the potential for spins, which drives a spin current. The SSE is of crucial importance in…

Phonons can carry angular momentum and exhibit chirality through the circular polarization of atomic motion. This enables a phonon-mediated spin Seebeck effect (SSE) via the conversion of phonon angular momentum into electron spin angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Jiayan Zhang , Gaoyang Li , Gaomin Tang , Yanxia Xing

Just as electronic shot noise in driven conductors results from the granularity of charge and the statistical variation in the arrival times of charge carriers, there are predictions for fundamental noise in magnon currents due to angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Renjie Luo , Xuanhan Zhao , Tanner J. Legvold , Liyang Chen , Changjiang Liu , Deshun Hong , Anand Bhattacharya , Douglas Natelson

Theoretical and experimental studies of the interaction between spins and temperature are vital for the development of spin caloritronics, as they dictate the design of future devices. In this work, we propose a two-terminal cold-atom…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-12-09 R. E. Barfknecht , A. Foerster , N. T. Zinner , A. G. Volosniev

A scannable laser beam is used to generate local thermal gradients in metallic (Co2FeAl) or insulating (Y3Fe5O12) ferromagnetic thin films. We study the resulting local charge and spin currents that arise due to the anomalous Nernst effect…

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

The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) enables thermoelectric conversion through thermally generated spin currents in magnetic materials, offering a promising transverse geometry for scalable devices. However, conventional SSE devices are confined…

Spintronic phenomena to date have been established in magnets with collinear moments, where the spin injection through the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) is always along the out-of-plane direction. Here, we report the observation of a vector SSE…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-14 Jinsong Xu , Jiaming He , J. -S. Zhou , Danru Qu , Ssu-Yen Huang , C. L. Chien

The spin Seebeck effect is studied across a charge insulating magnetic junction, in which thermal-spin conjugate transport is assisted by the exchange interactions between the localized spin in the center and electrons in metallic leads. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 Jie Ren , Jonas Fransson , Jian-Xin Zhu

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

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 show that graphene with Mn adatoms trapped at single vacancies feature spin-dependent Seebeck effect, thus enabling the use of this material for spin caloritronics. A gate potential can be used to tune its thermoelectric properties in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 Alberto Torres , Matheus P. Lima , A. Fazzio , Antônio J. R. da Silva