Flexible heat-flow sensing sheets based on the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect using one-dimensional spin-current conducting films

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Kirihara, Akihiro ^a,b   Kondo, Koichi ^c   Ishida, Masahiko ^a,b   Ihara, Kazuki ^a,b   Iwasaki, Yuma ^a   Someya, Hiroko ^a,b   Matsuba, Asuka ^a   Uchida, Ken Ichi ^b,d   Saitoh, Eiji ^b,d,e   Yamamoto, Naoharu ^c   Kohmoto, Shigeru ^a   Murakami, Tomoo ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NEC TOKIN CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

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EID: 84961160246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep23114     Document Type: Article

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