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A team lead by Dr. Shang-Fan Lee, Prof. C. L. Chien of Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Johns Hopkins University, and Prof. J. Raynein Kwo in CCMS of NTU, also supported by the Dragon Gate Program under the NSC, has important results on the newly developed ‘Spin Caloritronics’.

Post Date:2011-11-29

A team lead by Dr. Shang-Fan Lee, Prof. C. L. Chien of Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Johns Hopkins University, and Prof. J. Raynein Kwo in CCMS of NTU, also supported by the Dragon Gate Program under the NSC, has important results on the newly developed ‘Spin Caloritronics’. Most studies of spin caloritronic effects to date, including spin-Seebeck effect, utilize thin films on substrates. We use patterned ferromagnetic thin film to demonstrate the profound effect of a substrate on the spin-dependent thermal transport. With different sample patterns and on varying the direction of temperature gradient, both longitudinal and transverse thermal voltages exhibit asymmetric instead of symmetric spin dependence. This unexpected behavior is due to an out-of-plane temperature gradient imposed by the thermal conduction through the substrate and the mixture of anomalous Nernst effects. Only with substrate-free samples have we determined the intrinsic spin-dependent thermal transport with characteristics and field sensitivity similar to those of the anisotropic magnetoresistance effect. The result has been published in Physical Review Letters, 107, 216604 (2011)

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Journal Links: http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v107/i21/e216604

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