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The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in ferrimagnetic insulators (FMI) provides a simple method of using heat to manipulate magnons, which could be used as carriers of information and energy conversion. However, a theory that can quantitively…

Spin-momentum locking in protected surface states enables efficient electrical detection of magnon decay at a magnetic-insulator/topological-insulator heterojunction. Here we demonstrate this property using the spin Seebeck effect, i.e.…

One of the most important discoveries in spintronics is the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) recently observed in both insulating and (semi-)conducting magnets. However, the very existence of the effect in transverse configuration is still a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 C. Wang , Yunshan Cao , X. R. Wang , Peng Yan

Localized laser heating creates temperature gradients in all directions and thus leads to three-dimensional electron flux in metallic materials. Temperature gradients in combination with material magnetization generate thermomagnetic…

The abilities to inject and detect spin carriers are fundamental for research on transport and manipulation of spin information. Pure electronic spin currents have been recently studied in nanoscale electronic devices using a non-local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 I. J. Vera-Marun , V. Ranjan , B. J. van Wees

We present measurements of magneto-Seebeck effect on a spin valve with in-plane thermal gradient. We measured open circuit voltage and short circuit current by applying a temperature gradient across a spin valve stack, where one of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-18 S. Jain , D. D. Lam , A. Bose , H. Sharma , V. R. Palkar , C. V. Tomy , Y. Suzuki , A. A. Tulapurkar

The nonlinear Seebeck effect, nonlinear conversion of a temperature gradient into an electric current, was observed at room temperature. Based on a second-harmonic lock-in method combined with an a.c. temperature gradient, $\nabla T$, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-08 Y. Hirata , T. Kikkawa , H. Arisawa , E. Saitoh

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

The utilization of ferromagnetic (FM) materials in thermoelectric devices allows one to have a simpler structure and/or independent control of electric and thermal conductivities, which may further remove obstacles for this technology to be…

We demonstrated a flexible thermoelectric (TE) sheet based on the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (LSSE) that is especially suitable for heat-flow sensing applications. This TE sheet contained a Ni0.2Zn0.3Fe2.5O4 film which was formed on a…

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

In the framework of the kinetic approach based on the Boltzmann equation for the phonon distribution function, we analyze phonon heat transfer in a heterostructure containing a layer of a normal metal ($ N $) and a layer of a ferromagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-17 A. I. Bezuglyj , V. A. Shklovskij , V. V. Kruglyak , R. V. Vovk

We identify and investigate thermal spin transport phenomena in sputter-deposited Pt/NiFe$_2$O$_{\textrm{4-x}}$ ($4\geq x \geq 0$) bilayers. We separate the voltage generated by the spin Seebeck effect from the anomalous Nernst effect…

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

We have developed a method to probe the temperature of surface state electrons (SSE) above a superfluid Helium-4 surface using the Seebeck effect. In contrast to previously used SSE thermometry, this technique does not require detailed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Ethan I. Kleinbaum , Stephen A. Lyon

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 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

Spin Seebeck effect has been investigated in Pt/$\varepsilon$-Fe$_2$O$_3$ bilayers. The $\varepsilon$-Fe$_2$O$_3$ thin layer with $40-70$~nm thickness were deposited by a spin-coating method on Y:ZrO$_2$(100) substrates. The prepared layers…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-08 K. Knížek , M. Pashchenko , P. Levinský , O. Kaman , P. Jiříček , J. Hejtmánek , M. Soroka , J. Buršík

The realization of a viable semiconductor transistor and information processing devices based on the electron spin has fueled intense basic research of three key elements: injection, detection, and manipulation of spins in the semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-07 K. Olejnik , J. Wunderlich , A. C. Irvine , R. P. Campion , V. P. Amin , Jairo Sinova , T. Jungwirth

The control of the spin-Seebeck current is still a challenging task for the development of spin caloritronic devices. Here, we construct a spin-Seebeck device by inserting a strongly correlated quantum dot (QD) between the metal lead and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-19 Lei Gu , Hua-Hua Fu , Ruqian Wu