Moving spins with heat: Prospects for thermally powered spintronics

Author

Myers, Roberto C. ; Giles, Brandon ; Zihao Yang ; Jamison, John

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mater. Sci. & Eng., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

21-24 June 2015

Firstpage

47

Lastpage

48

Abstract

The new field of spin caloritronics¹ focuses on recently discovered spin-thermal transport effects, which can be separated into the two general areas of thermal transport due to spin, and vice versa, spin transport due to heat. Examples of the former include magnon thermal conductivity and the spin-Peltier effect, while the latter is exemplified by thermally-induced spin injection and the spin-Seebeck effect. Here, we consider the general possibility of using waste heat to power spintronic devices by incorporating thermal spin injection into a specific spin-based device.

Keywords

magnetoelectronics; power electronics; thermal conductivity; waste heat; magnon thermal conductivity; power spintronic devices; specific spin-based device; spin caloritronics; spin transport; spin-Peltier effect; spin-Seebeck effect; spin-thermal transport effects; thermal spin injection; thermally powered spintronics; thermally-induced spin injection; waste heat; Frequency modulation; Insulators; Metals; Resistance heating; Spin polarized transport; Temperature measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Device Research Conference (DRC), 2015 73rd Annual

Conference_Location

Columbus, OH

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-8134-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DRC.2015.7175546

Filename

7175546