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Demonstration of polycrystalline thin film coatings on glass for spin Seebeck energy harvesting

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posted on 2016-07-19, 11:28 authored by Andrew J. Caruana, Michael Cropper, Jake Zipfel, Zhaoxia ZhouZhaoxia Zhou, G.D. West, Kelly MorrisonKelly Morrison
The spin Seebeck effect, a newly discovered phenomena, has been suggested as a potential ‘game changer’ for thermoelectric technology due to the possibility of separating the electric and thermal conductivities. This is due to a completely different device architecture where, instead of an arrangement of p- and n-type pillars between two ceramic blocks, a thermopile could be deposited directly onto a magnetic film of interest. Here we report on the spin Seebeck effect in polycrystalline Fe3O4 :Pt bilayers deposited onto amorphous glass substrates with a view for economically viable energy harvesting. Crucially, these films exhibit large coercive fields (197 Oe) and retain 75% of saturation magnetisation, in conjunction with energy conversion comparable to epitaxially grown films. This demonstrates the potential of this technology for widespread application in harvesting waste heat for electricity.

Funding

This work was supported by EPSRC First Grant (EP/L024918/1).

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  • Science

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  • Physics

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Physica Status Solidi: Rapid Research Letters

Citation

CARUANA, A.J. ...et al., 2016. Demonstration of polycrystalline thin film coatings on glass for spin Seebeck energy harvesting. Physica Status Solidi: Rapid Research Letters, 10 (8), pp. 613-617.

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© The Authors. Published by Wiley

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-06-24

Publication date

2016

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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Wiley under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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1862-6270

Language

  • en