Spin caloritronics.

By G. Bauer, Eiji Saitoh, B. V. van Wees. Nature Materials, 2011

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Spintronics is about the coupled electron spin and charge transport in condensed-matter structures and devices. The recently invigorated field of spin caloritronics focuses on the interaction of spins with heat currents, motivated by newly discovered physical effects and strategies to improve existing thermoelectric devices. Here we give an overview of our understanding and the experimental state-of-the-art concerning the coupling of spin, charge and heat currents in magnetic thin films and nanostructures. Known phenomena are classified either as independent electron (such as spin-dependent Seebeck) effects in metals that can be understood by a model of two parallel spin-transport channels with different thermoelectric properties, or as collective (such as spin Seebeck) effects, caused by spin waves, that also exist in insulating ferromagnets. The search to find applications--for example heat sensors and waste heat recyclers--is on.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Current-induced spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems (2018, neutral): “caloritronics experiments (Bauer et al., 2012; Uchida et al., 2010).”
Colloquium : Spintronics in graphene and other two-dimensional materials (2019, background): “The insight that thermoelectric transport is interrelated with spin transport has developed in recent years into the active subfield of spin caloritronics (Bauer et al., 2012).”