Spin caloritronics

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 391-399

  Bauer, Gerrit E W ^a,b   Saitoh, Eiji ^a,c   Van Wees, Bart J ^d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; WASTE HEAT;

CONDENSED MATTER; ELECTRON SPINS; HEAT CURRENTS; PHYSICAL EFFECTS; SPIN TRANSPORT; STATE OF THE ART; THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 84860113714     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3301     Document Type: Review

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