Spin Seebeck Power Conversion

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint , Other literature type 01 Sep 2015Embargo end date: 01 Jan 2015Publisher:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)Journal:IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, volume 51, pages 1-14 (issn: 0018-9464, eissn: 1941-0069,

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Authors: Adam B. Cahaya; Oleg A. Tretiakov; G. E. W. Bauer;

doi: 10.1109/tmag.2015.2436362 , 10.48550/arxiv.1504.02002

arXiv: 1504.02002

Spin Seebeck Power Conversion

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Abstract

Spin caloritronics is the science and technology to control spin, charge, and heat currents in magnetic nanostructures. The spin degree of freedom provides new strategies for thermolelectric power generation that have not yet been fully explored. After an elementary introduction into conventional thermoelectrics and spintronics, we give a brief review of the physics of spin caloritronics. We discuss spin-dependent thermoelectrics based on the the two-current model in metallic magnets as well as the spin Seebeck and Peltier effects that are based on spin wave excitations in ferromagnets. We derive expressions for the efficiency and figure of merit ZT of several spin caloritronic devices.

14 pages, 14+ figures

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Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
Japan
Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
Tohoku University
Japan

Keywords

Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall), Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci), FOS: Physical sciences

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