Spin seebeck power conversion

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Cahaya, Adam B ^a   Tretiakov, Oleg A ^a   Bauer, G E W ^a,b,c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

spin caloritronics; spin Seebeck; thermoelectricity

Indexed keywords

MAGNETS; SPIN WAVES; THERMOELECTRIC POWER; THERMOELECTRICITY;

CURRENT MODELING; FIGURE OF MERITS; MAGNETIC NANOSTRUCTURES; POWER CONVERSION; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SEEBECK; SPIN CALORITRONICS; SPINWAVE EXCITATION;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS);

EID: 84940187057     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2015.2436362     Document Type: Article

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