Voltage tuning of thermal spin current in ferromagnetic tunnel contacts to semiconductors

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 360-366

  Jeon, Kun Rok ^a   Min, Byoung Chul ^b   Spiesser, Aurelie ^a   Saito, Hidekazu ^a   Shin, Sung Chul ^c,d   Yuasa, Shinji ^a   Jansen, Ron ^a  

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

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^d Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MICROWAVE DEVICES;

FERROMAGNETIC ELEMENTS; MAGNETIC TUNNELS; MATERIAL DESIGNS; NON-MAGNETIC MATERIALS; THERMOELECTRIC PARAMETERS; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES; TUNNEL CONTACTS; VOLTAGE TUNING;

FERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 84897039745     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3869     Document Type: Article

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