Thermal spin current from a ferromagnet to silicon by Seebeck spin tunnelling

Nature

Volumn 475, Issue 7354, 2011, Pages 82-85

  Le Breton, Jean Christophe ^a   Sharma, Sandeep ^a,b,c   Saito, Hidekazu ^b   Yuasa, Shinji ^b   Jansen, Ron ^b  

^a FOM INSTITUTE DIFFER   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; SILICON;

ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; HEAT FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; INSULATION; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; POLARIZATION; SILICON; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY; HEAT; HEAT TRANSFER; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 79960043764     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10224     Document Type: Article

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