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 …

Ferrimagnets for spintronic devices: From materials to applications

Y Zhang, X Feng, Z Zheng, Z Zhang, K Lin… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Spintronic devices use spin instead of charge to process information and are widely
considered as promising candidates for next-generation electronic devices. In past decades …

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 …

Yttrium iron garnet thin films with very low dam** obtained by recrystallization of amorphous material

C Hauser, T Richter, N Homonnay, C Eisenschmidt… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
We have investigated recrystallization of amorphous Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) by annealing
in oxygen atmosphere. Our findings show that well below the melting temperature the …

Length scale of the spin Seebeck effect

A Kehlberger, U Ritzmann, D Hinzke, EJ Guo… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We investigate the origin of the spin Seebeck effect in yttrium iron garnet (YIG) samples for
film thicknesses from 20 nm to 50 μ m at room temperature and 50 K. Our results reveal a …

Spin-current probe for phase transition in an insulator

Z Qiu, J Li, D Hou, E Arenholz, AT N'Diaye… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Spin fluctuation and transition have always been one of the central topics of magnetism and
condensed matter science. Experimentally, the spin fluctuation is found transcribed onto …

Sub-micrometer yttrium iron garnet LPE films with low ferromagnetic resonance losses

C Dubs, O Surzhenko, R Linke… - Journal of Physics D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Using a liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) technique (1 1 1) yttrium iron garnet (YIG) films with
thicknesses of≈ 100 nm and surface roughnesses as low as 0.3 nm have been grown on (1 …

Magnon valve effect between two magnetic insulators

H Wu, L Huang, C Fang, BS Yang, CH Wan, GQ Yu… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
The key physics of the spin valve involves spin-polarized conduction electrons propagating
between two magnetic layers such that the device conductance is controlled by the relative …

Recent advances in development of magnetic garnet thin films for applications in spintronics and photonics

Y Yang, T Liu, L Bi, L Deng - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2021 - Elsevier
Magnetic garnets (MG) are insulators with superior magnetic and optical properties, such as
high Curie temperature, highly tunable bulk perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) …

Ultra thin films of yttrium iron garnet with very low dam**: A review

G Schmidt, C Hauser, P Trempler… - … status solidi (b), 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thin film Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) is a promising material for integrated magnonics. To
introduce YIG into nanofabrication processes it is necessary to fabricate very thin YIG films …