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A thermal gradient as the driving force for spin currents plays a key role in spin caloritronics. In this field the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) is of major interest and was investigated in terms of in-plane thermal gradients inducing…

We investigate the spin-dependent thermoelectric effects in magnetic graphene in both diffusive and ballistic regimes. Employing the Boltzmann and Landauer formalisms we calculate the spin and charge Seebeck coefficients (thermopower) in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 Babak Zare Rameshti , Ali G. Moghaddam

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

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

Creating, manipulating and detecting spin polarized carriers are the key elements of spin based electronics. Most practical devices use a perpendicular geometry in which the spin currents, describing the transport of spin angular momentum,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 Abraham Slachter , Frank Lennart Bakker , Jean-Paul Adam , Bart Jan van Wees

Thermal spin pumping constitutes a novel mechanism for generation of spin currents; however their weak intensity constitutes a major roadblock for its usefulness. We report a phenomenon that produces a huge spin current in the central…

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 present a theory of the Seebeck effect in nanomagnets with dimensions smaller than the spin diffusion length, showing that the spin accumulation generated by a temperature gradient strongly affects the thermopower. We also identify a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Dmitry V. Fedorov , Martin Gradhand , Katarina Tauber , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Ingrid Mertig

Thermoelectric effects, measured by the Seebeck coefficients, refer to the phenomena in which a temperature difference or gradient imposed across a thermoelectric material induces an electrical potential difference or gradient, and vice…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-05 Yi Wang , Yong-Jie Hu , Shun-Li Shang , Bi-Cheng Zhou , Zi-Kui Liu , Long-Qing Chen

Recent studies have revealed magnetically controllable thermoelectric effects in superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) structures. A tunable cryogenic thermoelectric generator needs not only a high conversion factor between electricity and heat,…

The Seebeck effect describes the generation of an electric potential in a conducting solid exposed to a temperature gradient. Besides fundamental relevance in solid state physics, it serves as a key quantity to determine the performance of…

The usually negligibly small thermoelectric effects in superconducting heterostructures can be boosted dramatically due to the simultaneous effect of spin splitting and spin filtering. Building on an idea of our earlier work [Phys. Rev.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-20 P. Machon , M. Eschrig , W. Belzig

We study the transport of thermally excited non-equilibrium magnons through the ferrimagnetic insulator YIG using two electrically isolated Pt strips as injector and detector. The diffusing magnons induce a non- local inverse spin Hall…

We develop a microscopic theory for the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in N\'eel and canted phases of antiferromagnetic insulators. We calculate the DC spin current tunneling from the antiferromagnet to an attached metal, incorporating the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-14 Keisuke Masuda , Masahiro Sato

As a non-magnetic heavy metal is attached to a ferromagnet, a vertically flowing heat-driven spin current is converted to a transverse electric voltage, which is known as the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (SSE). If the ferromagnet is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yadong Xu , Bowen Yang , Chi Tang , Zilong Jiang , Michael Schneider , Renu Whig , Jing Shi

An unconventional approach to enhance the transverse thermopower by combining magnetic and thermoelectric materials, namely the Seebeck-driven transverse thermoelectric generation (STTG), has been proposed and demonstrated recently. Here,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-03 Weinan Zhou , Takamasa Hirai , Ken-ichi Uchida , Yuya Sakuraba

Spintronic, spin caloritronic, and magnonic phenomena arise from complex interactions between charge, spin, and structural degrees of freedom that are challenging to model and even more difficult to predict. This situation is compounded by…

It has recently been proposed and experimentally demonstrated that it is possible to generate large thermoelectric effects in ferromagnet/superconductor structures due to a spin-dependent particle-hole asymmetry. Here, we theoretically show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-15 Jacob Linder , Marianne Etzelmüller Bathen

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.…

Heat engines are key devices that convert thermal energy into usable energy. Strong thermoelectricity, at the basis of electrical heat engines, is present in superconducting spin tunnel barriers at cryogenic temperatures where conventional…