[HTML][HTML] Spin caloritronics, origin and outlook

H Yu, SD Brechet, JP Ansermet - Physics Letters A, 2017 - Elsevier
Spin caloritronics refers to research efforts in spintronics when a heat current plays a role. In
this review, we start out by reviewing the predictions that can be drawn from the …

Thermal spin-transfer torque driven by the spin-dependent Seebeck effect in metallic spin-valves

GM Choi, CH Moon, BC Min, KJ Lee, DG Cahill - Nature physics, 2015 - nature.com
The coupling of spin and heat gives rise to new physical phenomena in nanoscale spin
devices. In particular, spin-transfer torque (STT) driven by thermal transport provides a new …

Spin caloritronic nano-oscillator

C Safranski, I Barsukov, HK Lee, T Schneider… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Energy loss due to ohmic heating is a major bottleneck limiting down-scaling and speed of
nano-electronic devices, and harvesting ohmic heat for signal processing is a major …

Thermal and electrical conductivity of approximately 100-nm permalloy, Ni, Co, Al, and Cu films and examination of the Wiedemann-Franz Law

AD Avery, SJ Mason, D Bassett, D Wesenberg, BL Zink - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We present measurements of thermal and electrical conductivity of polycrystalline permalloy
(Ni-Fe), aluminum, copper, cobalt, and nickel thin films with thickness< 200 nm. A …

Spin caloric transport from density-functional theory

V Popescu, P Kratzer, P Entel, C Heiliger… - Journal of Physics D …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Spin caloric transport refers to the coupling of heat with spin transport. Its applications
primarily concern the generation of spin currents and control of magnetisation by …

Thermographic measurements of spin-current-induced temperature modulation in metallic bilayers

R Iguchi, A Yagmur, YC Lau, S Daimon, E Saitoh… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Temperature modulation due to a pure spin current has been investigated in bilayer metallic
films consisting of a paramagnetic metal (PM; Pt, W, or Ta) and a ferromagnetic metal (FM; …

Observation of thermally driven field-like spin torque in magnetic tunnel junctions

A Bose, AK Shukla, K Konishi, S Jain, N Asam… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We report the thermally driven giant field-like spin-torque in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ)
on application of heat current from top to bottom. The field-like term is detected by the shift of …

Observation of thermal spin–orbit torque in W/CoFeB/MgO structures

JM Kim, DJ Kim, C Cheon, KW Moon, C Kim… - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Coupling of spin and heat currents enables the spin Nernst effect, the thermal generation of
spin currents in nonmagnets that have strong spin–orbit interaction. Analogous to the spin …

Enhancing the spin transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions by ac modulation

X Chen, C Zhou, Z Zhang, J Chen, X Zheng, L Zhang… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The phenomenon of spin transfer torque (STT) has attracted a great deal of interest due to its
promising prospects in practical spintronic devices. In this paper, we report a theoretical …

Noise spectroscopy of CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunnel junctions in the presence of thermal gradients

N Liebing, S Serrano-Guisan, K Rott, G Reiss… - Journal of Magnetism …, 2016 - Elsevier
We present experimental data of the precessional dynamics of the free layer of
CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB based magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) in the presence of thermal …