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Spin heat accumulation and spin-dependent temperatures in nanopillar spin valves
journal contribution
posted on 2018-10-11, 14:22 authored by Fasil DejeneFasil Dejene, J. Flipse, G.E.W. Bauer, B.J. van WeesSince the discovery of the giant magnetoresistance effect1,2 the intrinsic angular momentum of the electron has opened up new spin-based device concepts. Our present understanding of the coupled transport of charge, spin and heat relies on the two-channel model for spin-up and spin-down electrons having equal temperatures. Here we report the observation of different (effective) temperatures for the spin-up and spin-down electrons in a nanopillar spin valve subject to a heat current. By three-dimensional finite element modelling3 of our devices for varying thickness of the non-magnetic layer, spin heat accumulations (the difference of the spin temperatures) of 120 mK and 350 mK are extracted at room temperature and 77 K, respectively, which is of the order of 10% of the total temperature bias over the nanopillar. This technique uniquely allows the study of inelastic spin scattering at low energies and elevated temperatures, which is not possible by spectroscopic methods.
Funding
This work is part of the research programme of the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) and supported by NanoLab NL, EU FP7 ICT Grant No. 251759 MACALO, JSPS Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research A No. 25247056, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Priority Programme SPP 1538 'Spin-Caloric Transport' and the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials.
History
School
- Science
Department
- Physics
Published in
Nature PhysicsVolume
9Issue
10Pages
636 - 639Citation
DEJENE, F.K. ... et al, 2013. Spin heat accumulation and spin-dependent temperatures in nanopillar spin valves. Nature Physics, 9 (10), pp.636-639.Publisher
Nature Publishing Group © Macmillan Publishers Limited.Version
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This paper was published in the journal Nature Physics and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2743.ISSN
1745-2473eISSN
1745-2481Publisher version
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