Advanced thermoelectric design: from materials and structures to devices

XL Shi, J Zou, ZG Chen - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The long-standing popularity of thermoelectric materials has contributed to the creation of
various thermoelectric devices and stimulated the development of strategies to improve their …

[HTML][HTML] Spin insulatronics

A Brataas, B van Wees, O Klein, G de Loubens, M Viret - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
Spin insulatronics covers efforts to generate, detect, control, and utilize high-fidelity pure
spin currents and excitations inside magnetic insulators. Ultimately, the new findings may …

Long-distance transport of magnon spin information in a magnetic insulator at room temperature

LJ Cornelissen, J Liu, RA Duine, JB Youssef… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
The transport of spin information has been studied in various materials, such as metals,
semiconductors and graphene. In these materials, spin is transported by the diffusion of …

Opportunities at the frontiers of spintronics

A Hoffmann, SD Bader - Physical Review Applied, 2015 - APS
The field of spintronics, or magnetic electronics, is maturing and giving rise to new subfields.
These new directions involve the study of collective spin excitations and couplings of the …

Antiferromagnetic spin Seebeck effect

SM Wu, W Zhang, A Kc, P Borisov, JE Pearson… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We report on the observation of the spin Seebeck effect in antiferromagnetic MnF 2. A device
scale on-chip heater is deposited on a bilayer of MnF 2 (110)(30 nm)/Pt (4 nm) grown by …

Magnon spin transport driven by the magnon chemical potential in a magnetic insulator

LJ Cornelissen, KJH Peters, GEW Bauer, RA Duine… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We develop a linear-response transport theory of diffusive spin and heat transport by
magnons in magnetic insulators with metallic contacts. The magnons are described by a …

Thermoelectric generation based on spin Seebeck effects

K Uchida, H Adachi, T Kikkawa, A Kirihara… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) refers to the generation of a spin current as a result of a
temperature gradient in magnetic materials including insulators. The SSE is applicable to …

Longitudinal spin Seebeck effect: from fundamentals to applications

K Uchida, M Ishida, T Kikkawa… - Journal of Physics …, 2014 - editors.iopscience.iop.org
The spin Seebeck effect refers to the generation of spin voltage as a result of a temperature
gradient in ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic materials. When a conductor is attached to a …

Experimental test of the spin mixing interface conductivity concept

M Weiler, M Althammer, M Schreier, J Lotze… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We perform a quantitative, comparative study of the spin pumping, spin Seebeck, and spin
Hall magnetoresistance effects, all detected via the inverse spin Hall effect in a series of over …

Origin of the spin Seebeck effect in compensated ferrimagnets

S Geprägs, A Kehlberger, FD Coletta, Z Qiu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Magnons are the elementary excitations of a magnetically ordered system. In ferromagnets,
only a single band of low-energy magnons needs to be considered, but in ferrimagnets the …