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 …

Interface-induced phenomena in magnetism

F Hellman, A Hoffmann, Y Tserkovnyak… - Reviews of modern …, 2017 - APS
This article reviews static and dynamic interfacial effects in magnetism, focusing on
interfacially driven magnetic effects and phenomena associated with spin-orbit coupling and …

Chiral-phonon-activated spin Seebeck effect

K Kim, E Vetter, L Yan, C Yang, Z Wang, R Sun… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Utilization of the interaction between spin and heat currents is the central focus of the field of
spin caloritronics. Chiral phonons possessing angular momentum arising from the broken …

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 …

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 …

Thermal generation of spin current in an antiferromagnet

S Seki, T Ideue, M Kubota, Y Kozuka, R Takagi… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
The longitudinal spin Seebeck effect has been investigated for a uniaxial antiferromagnetic
insulator Cr 2 O 3, characterized by a spin-flop transition under magnetic field along the c …

Magnon polarons in the spin Seebeck effect

T Kikkawa, K Shen, B Flebus, RA Duine, K Uchida… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Sharp structures in the magnetic field-dependent spin Seebeck effect (SSE) voltages of Pt/Y
3 Fe 5 O 12 at low temperatures are attributed to the magnon-phonon interaction …

Perspective on quantum thermodynamics

J Millen, A Xuereb - New Journal of Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Classical thermodynamics is unrivalled in its range of applications and relevance to
everyday life. It enables a description of complex systems, made up of microscopic particles …

Spin Seebeck effect: Sensitive probe for elementary excitation, spin correlation, transport, magnetic order, and domains in solids

T Kikkawa, E Saitoh - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) refers to the generation of a spin current as a result of a
temperature gradient in a magnetic material, which can be detected electrically via the …

Spin-current-controlled modulation of the magnon spin conductance in a three-terminal magnon transistor

LJ Cornelissen, J Liu, BJ Van Wees, RA Duine - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Efficient manipulation of magnon spin transport is crucial for develo** magnon-based
spintronic devices. In this Letter, we provide proof of principle of a method for modulating the …