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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

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

The exploitation of spin Berry phases to generate emergent fields for producing miniaturized and high-quality inductors has enjoyed considerable popularity among proponents of quantum technologies [Nature 586, 202 (2020)}]. Inspired by this…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-14 Chaofan Gong

Using one of the methods of quantum nonequilibrium statistical physics we have investigated the spin transport transverse to the normal metal/ferromagnetic insulator interface in hybrid nanostructures. An approximation of the effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. I. Lyapilin , M. S. Okorokov , V. V. Ustinov

For the last years spin effects in semiconductors have been of great interest not only in the context of solid state physics, but also for their potential usage in technology. In this paper we give a short review of spintronic materials, in…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-07 Z. Wilamowski , A. Werpachowska

Magnon-drag is shown to dominate the thermopower of elemental Fe from 2 to 80 K and of elemental Co from 150 to 600 K; it is also shown to contribute to the thermopower of elemental Ni from 50 to 500 K. Two theoretical models are presented…

Magnetic insulators, such as yttrium iron garnet (Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$), are ideal materials for ultra-low power spintronics applications due to their low energy dissipation and efficient spin current generation and transmission. Recently,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-05 Matthias B. Jungfleisch , Junjia Ding , Wei Zhang , Wanjun Jiang , John E. Pearson , Valentine Novosad , Axel Hoffmann

We study the connection between the spin-heat and spin-charge response in a disordered Fermi gas with spin-orbit coupling. It is shown that the ratio between the above responses can be expressed as the thermopower $S=-(\pi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. Borge , C. Gorini , R. Raimondi

Spintronic devices are based on heterojunctions of two materials with different magnetic and electronic properties. Although an energy barrier is naturally formed even at the interface of metallic heterojunctions, its impact on spin…

Recent experiments show that spin thermoelectrics is a promising approach to generate spin voltages. While spin chemical potentials are often limited to a surface layer of the order of the spin diffusion length, we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Tamara S. Nunner , Felix von Oppen

The electron transport though ferromagnetic metal-superconducting hybrid devices is considered in the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism in the quasiclassical approximation. Attention if focused on the limit in which the exchange…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Belzig , Arne Brataas , Yu. V. Nazarov , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We demonstrate that thermoelectric currents in superconducting bilayers with a spin-active interface are controlled by the two competing processes. On one hand, spin-sensitive quasiparticle scattering at such interface generates…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-16 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

Had magnetic monopoles been ubiquitous as electrons are, we would probably have had a different form of matter, and power plants based on currents of these magnetic charges would have been a familiar scene of modern technology. Magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-17 Mohamed Azzouz

The field of spintronics has seen a surge of interest in altermagnetism due to novel predictions and many possible applications. MnTe is a leading altermagnetic candidate that is of significant interest across spintronics due to its layered…

In the last decades, collinear magnetic insulating systems have emerged as promising energy-saving information carriers. Their elementary collective spin excitations, i.e., magnons, can propagate for long distances bypassing the Joule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Benedetta Flebus

Magnon excitations in antiferromagnetic materials and their physical implications enable novel device concepts not available in ferromagnets, emerging as a new area of active research. A unique characteristic of antiferromagnetic magnons is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Hantao Zhang , Ran Cheng

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected excitations of the magnetization vector field with promising applications in spintronics and spin-caloritronics, particularly due to their high mobility. Skyrmions can be steered by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Xi-guang Wang , L. Chotorlishvili , Guang-hua Guo , C. -L. Jia , J. Berakdar

Spintronics is a field of electronics based on using the electron spin instead of its charge. The recent advance in the manipulation of pure spin currents, i.e. angular momentum transfer not associated to conventional charge currents, has…

Altermagnets offer a promising platform for dissipationless spin transport by combining zero net magnetization with spontaneous non-relativistic spin splitting. However, their magnonic transport properties remain largely unexplored. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Sankar Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

A theory of spin-polarized electron transport in ferromagnet-semiconductor heterostructures, based on a unified semiclassical description of ballistic and diffusive transport in semiconductors, is outlined. The aim is to provide a framework…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Lipperheide , U. Wille
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