自旋Seebeck效应的研究进展--厦门大学物理系.pdfVIP

Material Sciences 材料科学, 2014, 4, 175-190 Published Online September 2014 in Hans. /journal/ms /10.12677/ms.2014.45026 Recent Progress in Spin Seebeck Effect Jiansen Zheng, Jincheng Zheng* Department of Physics, School of Physics and Mechanical Electrical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen * Email: jczheng@ th th th Received: Jul. 14 , 2014; revised: Aug. 12 , 2014; accepted: Aug. 20 , 2014 Copyright © 2014 by authors and Hans Publishers Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Spin Seebeck effect, as an emerging field of spintronics, refers to the phenomenon that under spe- cific conditions, on the contact interface between a non-magnetic metal material with strong spin- orbit coupling and a ferromagnetic insulator or other candidates, there will occur a temperature gradient induced spin injection crossing the boundary. The effect implements the conversion from heat to the spin current, and also this spin current can be transformed into the charge voltage with the help of the inverse spin Hall effect in a non-magnetic metal. We will firstly survey the recent experimental progress in this area, and then review the latest theoretical progress in spin Seebeck effect mechanism. In the final, we will discuss the possibility of its device applications, and give a perspective for the relevant theoretical and experimental research, pointing out that the applica- tion in future thermoelectric conversion remains challenging and some viable solutions are pro- posed. Keywords Spin Seebeck Effect, Ferromagnetic Insulator, Magnon, Spin Pumping, Inverse Spin Hall Effect 自旋Seebeck效应研究进展 郑建森，郑金成* 厦门大学物理与