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The global shift towards a carbon-neutral society has accelerated the demand for green energy, driving research into efficient technologies for harvesting energy from low-grade waste heat. Recently, transverse thermoelectrics based on the…

The magnetoelectric (ME) effect traditionally arises from complex spin-orbital interactions in multiferroic materials. In this work, we propose a distinct, intrinsic mechanism for the magnetoelectric effect in quasi-2D magnetic systems that…

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Transverse thermoelectric power generation has emerged as a topic of immense interest in recent years owing to the orthogonal geometry which enables better scalability and fabrication of devices. Here, we investigate the thickness…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-31 Hiroyasu Matsuura , Alexander Riss , Fabian Garmroudi , Michael Parzer , Ernst Bauer

We report a measurement for the anomalous Nernst effects induced by a temperature gradient in [CoSiB/Pt] multilayer films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. The Nernst voltage shows a characteristic hysteresis which reflects the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-01 O. Kelekci , H. N. Lee , T. W. Kim , H. Noh

In topological materials, the planar Hall effect (PHE) is often regarded as a hallmark of profound quantum phenomena-most notably the Adler-Bell-Jackiw chiral anomaly and Berry curvature-rendering it an indispensable tool for deciphering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-28 Xiangqi Liu , Ziyi Zhu , Yixuan Luo , Zhengyang Li , Bo Bai , Jingcheng Huang , Xia Wang , Chuanying Xi , Li Pi , Guanxiang Du , Leiming Chen , Wenbo Wang , Wei Xia , Yanfeng Guo

Weyl semimetals expand research on topologically protected transport by adding bulk Berry monopoles with linearly dispersing electronic states and topologically robust, gapless surface Fermi arcs terminating on bulk node projections. Here,…

Thermoelectric materials can recover electrical energy from waste heat and vice versa, which are of great significance in green energy harvesting and solid state refrigerator. The thermoelectric figure of merit (zT) quantifies the energy…

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

Recent studies have shown that moir\'{e} flat bands in a twisted bilayer graphene(TBG) can acquire nontrivial Berry curvatures when aligned with hexagonal boron nitride substrate [1, 2], which can be manifested as a correlated Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Cheng-Ping Zhang , Jiewen Xiao , Benjamin T. Zhou , Jin-Xin Hu , Ying-Ming Xie , Binghai Yan , K. T. Law

Recently, topological semimetals have emerged as strong candidates for solid state thermomagnetic refrigerators due to their enhanced Nernst effect. This enhancement arises from the combined contributions of the Berry curvature induced…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-29 Antu Laha , Sarah Paone , Asish K. Kundu , Juntao Yao , Niraj Aryal , Elio Vescovo , Qiang Li

Berry curvature that describes local geometrical properties of energy bands can elucidate many fascinating phenomena in solid-state, photonic, and phononic systems, given its connection to global topological invariants such as the Chern…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-21 Xuefan Yin , Ye Chen , Xiaoyu Zhang , Zixuan Zhang , Susumu Noda , Chao Peng

Photocurrent measurements provide a powerful means of studying the spatially resolved optoelectronic and electrical properties of a material or device. Generally speaking there are two classes of mechanism for photocurrent generation: those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Helin Cao , Grant Aivazian , Zaiyao Fei , Jason Ross , David H. Cobden , Xiaodong Xu

Magnetic topological semimetals often exhibit unusual electronic and thermal transport due to nontrivial bulk band crossings, enabling simultaneous realization of large anomalous Hall and Nernst conductivities ($\sigma_{xy}$ and…

Inter-twisted bilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials can host low-energy flat bands, which offer opportunity to investigate many intriguing physics associated with strong electron correlations. In the existing systems, ultra-flat bands…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Shengdan Tao , Xuanlin Zhang , Jiaojiao Zhu , Pimo He , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yunhao Lu , Su-Huai Wei

The thermodynamics of irreversible processes in continuous media predicts the existence of a Magnetic Nernst effect that results from a magnetic analog to the Seebeck effect in a ferromagnet and magnetophoresis occurring in a paramagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Sylvain D. Brechet , Jean-Philippe Ansermet

We present a theoretical study of the anomalous Nernst and Hall conductance in the Kagome metal potassium tri vanadium pentantimonide, based on a system Hamiltonian incorporating nearest neighbour and complex next nearest neighbour hopping,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Partha Goswami

The search for a giant Nernst effect beyond conventional mechanisms offers advantages for developing advanced thermoelectric devices and understanding charge-entropy conversion. Here, we study the Seebeck and Nernst effects of HfTe5 over a…

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…

Recent experimental and theoretical studies have revealed the emergence of a linear layer Hall effect (LHE) induced by hidden Berry curvature in \textrm{MnBi}$_{2}$\textrm{Te}$_{4}$ thin films. This phenomenon underscores the layer degree…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Zhuo-Hua Chen , Hou-Jian Duan , Ming-Xun Deng , Rui-Qiang Wang

Spin and valley dependent anomalous Nernst effect are analyzed for monolayer MoS2 and other group-VI dichalcogenides. We find that pure spin and valley currents can be generated perpendicular to the applied thermal gradient in the plane of…

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