AIP Advances (Aug 2017)

Temperature dependence of the non-local spin Seebeck effect in YIG/Pt nanostructures

  • Kathrin Ganzhorn,
  • Tobias Wimmer,
  • Joel Cramer,
  • Richard Schlitz,
  • Stephan Geprägs,
  • Gerhard Jakob,
  • Rudolf Gross,
  • Hans Huebl,
  • Mathias Kläui,
  • Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4986848
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 8
pp. 085102 – 085102-7

Abstract

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We study the transport of thermally excited non-equilibrium magnons through the ferrimagnetic insulator YIG using two electrically isolated Pt strips as injector and detector. The diffusing magnons induce a non-local inverse spin Hall voltage in the detector corresponding to the so-called non-local spin Seebeck effect (SSE). We measure the non-local SSE as a function of temperature and strip separation. In experiments at room temperature we observe a sign change of the non-local SSE voltage at a characteristic strip separation d0, in agreement with previous investigations. At lower temperatures however, we find a strong temperature dependence of d0. This suggests that both the angular momentum transfer across the YIG/Pt interface as well as the transport mechanism of the magnons in YIG as a function of temperature must be taken into account to describe the non-local SSE.