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A novel process of spin conversion from a temperature gradient to a transverse voltage is addressed in this paper, viz. the anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) in a ferromagnetic metal. We report that an additional voltage is superposed on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-12 M. Mizuguchi , K. Hasegawa , J. Ohe , M. Tsujikawa , M. Shirai , K. Takanashi

The quest for nonmagnetic Weyl semimetals with high tunability of phase has remained a demanding challenge. As the symmetry breaking control parameter, the ferroelectric order can be steered to turn on/off the Weyl semimetals phase, adjust…

On the measurement of thermoelectric power and Nernst coefficient, we used two kinds of shapes for a sample. One is "Bridge shape" and the other is, we call,"Fat-Bridge shape". The latter has 5 times wider main body than the former. We used…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-03 Kazuaki Ikeda , Hiroaki Nakamura , Satarou Yamaguchi

Understanding the energy transport by charge carriers and phonons in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals heterostructures is essential for the development of future energy-efficient 2D nanoelectronics. Here, we performed in situ spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Daehee Kim , Hanul Kim , Wan Soo Yun , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Heesuk Rho , Myung-Ho Bae

The conductance and thermoelectric power (TEP) of graphene is simultaneously measured using microfabricated heater and thermometer electrodes. The sign of the TEP changes across the charge neutrality point as the majority carrier density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-29 Yuri M. Zuev , Willy Chang , Philip Kim

Thermoelectrics (TEs) are solid-state devices that can realize heat-electricity conversion. Transverse TEs require materials with a large Nernst effect, which typically requires a strong applied magnetic field. However, topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Jiamin Wen , Kaustuv Manna , Dung Vu , Subhadeep Bej , Yu Pan , Claudia Felser , Brian Skinner , Joseph P. Heremans

Graphene-based vertical heterostructures, particularly stacks incorporated with other layered materials, are promising for nanoelectronics. The stacking of two model Dirac materials, graphene and topological insulator, can considerably…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-24 Liang Zhang , Yuan Yan , Han-Chun Wu , Dapeng Yu , Zhi-Min Liao

The transverse Nernst--Ettingshausen effect and thermopower of hot charge carriers in nondegenerate impure semiconductors placed at high electric and nonquantized magnetic fields in the nondiffusion approximation is studied. Arbitrary…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 T. M. Gassym , H. A. Hasanov

We investigate the Nernst effect in a mesoscopic two-dimensional electron system (2DES) at low magnetic fields, before the onset of Landau level quantization. The overall magnitude of the Nernst signal agrees well with semi-classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Srijit Goswami , Christoph Siegert , Michael Pepper , Ian Farrer , David A. Ritchie , Arindam Ghosh

We analyze the thermoelectric response of Dirac and Weyl semimetals using the semiclassical approach, focusing on the extrinsic contributions due to skew-scattering and side jump. Our results apply to linear response Nernst effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Michał Papaj , Liang Fu

Thermoelectric materials, long explored for energy harvesting and thermal sensing, convert heat directly into electrical signals. Extending their application to the terahertz (THz) frequency range opens opportunities for low-noise,…

Thermoelectric modules are a promising approach to energy harvesting and efficient cooling. In addition to the longitudinal Seebeck effect, recently transverse devices utilizing the anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) have attracted interest. For…

Twisted graphene multilayers have demonstrated to yield a versatile playground to engineer controllable electronic states. Here, by combining first-principles calculations and low-energy models, we demonstrate that twisted graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla , J. L. Lado

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

In-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has become an important technique to study dynamic processes at highest spatial resolution and one branch is the investigation of phenomena related with electrical currents. Here, we present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Simon Hettler , Raul Arenal

Dirac/Weyl semimetals hosting linearly-dispersing bands have received recent attention for potential thermoelectric applications, since their ultrahigh-mobility carriers could generate large thermoelectric and Nernst power factors. To…

We investigated the electronic and optoelectronic properties of vertical van der Waals heterostructure photodetectors using layered p type GaSe and n type InSe, with graphene as the transparent electrodes. Not only the photocurrent peaks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Faguang Yan , Dong Zhang , Wengang Luo , PingAn Hu , Qi Feng , Chao Shen , Xia Wei , Kai Chang , Kaiyou Wang

Integration of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdWs) materials with non-2D materials to realize mixed-dimensional heterostructures has potential for creating functional devices beyond the reach of existing materials and has long been a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-06 Ya-Ning Ren , Mo-Han Zhang , Qi Zheng , Lin He

An understanding of high temperature superconductivity clearly requires the nature of its normal state, however the normal state of the cuprates is poorly understood. One possible explanation is the bipolaronic model where mobile, heavily…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 K. K. Lee

Nano-structuring is an extremely promising path to high performance thermoelectrics. Favorable improvements in thermal conductivity are attainable in many material systems, and theoretical work points to large improvements in electronic…