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We study the thermoelectric response of a device containing a pair of helical edge states contacted at the same temperature $T$ and chemical potential $\mu$ and connected to an external reservoir, with different chemical potential and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-28 P. Roura-Bas , Liliana. Arrachea , Eduardo Fradkin

We theoretically investigate the enhancement of thermoelectric cooling performance in thermoelectric devices made of materials with inhomogeneous thermal conductivity, beyond the usual practice of enhancing thermoelectric figure of merit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Tingyu Lu , Jun Zhou , Nianbei Li , Ronggui Yang , Baowen Li

The recently discovered three dimensional or bulk topological insulators are expected to exhibit exotic quantum phenomena. It is believed that a trivial insulator can be twisted into a topological state by modulating the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-24 Su-Yang Xu , Y. Xia , L. A. Wray , D. Qian , Shuang Jia , J. H. Dil , F. Meier , J. Osterwalder , B. Slomski , H. Lin , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

We report about detailed dimensionless figure of merit ($ZT$) calculated by using Fermi integral method (compared with Bi$_2$Te$_3$, CoSb$_3$, and SrTiO$_3$) for thermoelectric (TE) materials' design and its module application.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-05 Hirofumi Kakemoto

A numerical study of thermoelectric nanocomposites is presented. Thermoelectric properties as a function of average grain size or nanoparticle density are examined by simulating the measurements as they would be done experimentally. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-08 Xufeng Wang , Mark Lundstrom

The possibility of using quantum Hall systems for thermoelectric energy conversion is investigated. It is shown that the massive degeneracy and the metallicity of a partially-filled Landau level enable thermoelectric cooling and power…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-23 Liang Fu

We investigate the thermoelectric properties of a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic and superconducting electrodes. The combination of spin polarized tunneling at the ferromagnetic-quantum dot interface and the application of an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Sun-Yong Hwang , Rosa Lopez , David Sanchez

Spin Hall effect and its inverse provide essential means to convert charge to spin currents and vice versa, which serve as a primary function for spintronic phenomena such as the spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance and the spin Seebeck…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Yasuhiro Niimi , YoshiChika Otani

In the present work, we report the experimental thermopower ($\alpha$) data for ZnV$_{2}$O$_{4}$ compound in the high temperature range 300-600 K. The value of $\alpha$ is found to be $\sim$184 and $\sim$126 $\mu$V/K at $\sim$300 and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-30 Saurabh Singh , R. K. Maurya , Sudhir K. Pandey

The search for novel spintronic devices brings about new ways to control switching in magnetic thin-films. In this work we experimentally demonstrate a device based on thermoelectrically controlled exchange coupling. The read out signal…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-27 S. Andersson , V. Korenivski

We investigate transverse magnetic heat transport on the surface of a topological insulator on which a ferromagnet is attached. We present general expressions of the Nernst coefficient and the thermal Hall conductivity, which are reduced to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Takehito Yokoyama , Shuichi Murakami

Topological Hall effect (THE), an electrical transport signature of systems with chiral spin textures like skyrmions, has been observed recently in topological insulator (TI)-based magnetic heterostructures. However, the intriguing…

We calculate the thermoelectric transport of spin-orbit coupled conduction electrons in the presence of topological spin textures. We show, within a controlled, semiclassical approach that includes all phase space Berry curvatures, that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Zachariah Addison , Lauren Keyes , Mohit Randeria

Time-periodic perturbations can be used to engineer topological properties of matter by altering the Floquet band structure. This is demonstrated for a spin Hall insulator in the presence of monochromatic circularly polarized light. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-02 Balázs Dóra , Jérôme Cayssol , Ferenc Simon , Roderich Moessner

The Nernst thermopower usually is considered far too weak in most metals for waste heat recovery. However, its transverse orientation gives it an advantage over the Seebeck effect on non-flat surfaces. Here, we experimentally demonstrate…

The electronic structure and thermoelectric properties of ZrRuTe-based Half-Heusler compounds are studied using density functional theory (DFT) and Boltzmann transport formalism. Based on rigorous computations of electron relaxation time…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-13 Sonu Prasad Keshri , Amal Medhi

Topological semimetals (TSs) are promising candidates for low-power spin-orbit torque (SOT) devices due to their large charge-to-spin conversion efficiency. Here, we investigated the charge-to-spin conversion efficiency of amorphous PtSn4…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-04 Jinming Liu , Yihong Fan , Delin Zhang , Onri J. Benally , Lakhan Bainsla , Thomas Peterson , Jian-Ping Wang

Precise estimation of spin Hall angle as well as successful maximization of spin-orbit torque (SOT) form a basis of electronic control of magnetic properties with spintronic functionality. Until now, current-nonlinear Hall effect, or second…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-02 K. Yasuda , A. Tsukazaki , R. Yoshimi , K. Kondou , K. S. Takahashi , Y. Otani , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

We have successfully controlled thermoelectric properties of ZnO by changing carrier concentration using an electric double layer transistor (EDLT) which is a feld effect transistor gated by electrolyte solution. The resistivity and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Ryohei Takayanagi , Takenori Fujii , Atsushi Asamitsu

The possibility to engineer the coupling of spin and valley physics is explored in ferroelectric oxide heterostructures with eg electronic configuration. We show that the polar structural distortion induces the appearance of spin-valley…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-01 Kunihiko Yamauchi , Paolo Barone , Silvia Picozzi