AIP Advances (Jan 2017)

Magneto-Seebeck effect in magnetic tunnel junctions with perpendicular anisotropy

  • Keyu Ning,
  • Houfang Liu,
  • Zhenyi Ju,
  • Chi Fang,
  • Caihua Wan,
  • Jinglei Cheng,
  • Xiao Liu,
  • Linsen Li,
  • Jiafeng Feng,
  • Hongxiang Wei,
  • Xiufeng Han,
  • Yi Yang,
  • Tian-Ling Ren

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4974972
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 015035 – 015035-5

Abstract

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As one invigorated filed of spin caloritronics combining with spin, charge and heat current, the magneto-Seebeck effect has been experimentally and theoretically studied in spin tunneling thin films and nanostructures. Here we analyze the tunnel magneto-Seebeck effect in magnetic tunnel junctions with perpendicular anisotropy (p-MTJs) under various measurement temperatures. The large tunnel magneto-Seebeck (TMS) ratio up to −838.8% for p-MTJs at 200 K is achieved, with Seebeck coefficient S in parallel and antiparallel states of 6.7 mV/K and 62.9 mV/K, respectively. The temperature dependence of the tunnel magneto-Seebeck can be attributed to the contributing transmission function and electron states at the interface between CoFeB electrode and MgO barrier.