Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Jungiusstrasse 11A, 20355 Hamburg, Germany.
Abstract
Mapping out the magneto-Seebeck coefficient
In the Seebeck effect, a temperature difference across a device generates voltage. If the thermal gradient is imposed across a magnetic tunnel junction—with two magnetized layers separated by an insulating tunnel barrier—the magnitude of the generated voltage depends on the relative orientation of the magnetization in the two layers. Transport measurements of this so-called magneto-Seebeck tunneling typically reveal only the signal averaged over the device. Friesen
et al.
created an atomic-scale version of this experiment by using a scanning tunneling microscope with a spin-polarized tip that they scanned across the surface of a magnetic sample. By heating the tip, they were able to map out the spatial dependence of the spin-resolved Seebeck coefficient.
Science
, this issue p.
1065
Funder
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Cited by
20 articles.
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