Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Thermal imaging of spin Peltier effect

  • Shunsuke Daimon,
  • Ryo Iguchi,
  • Tomosato Hioki,
  • Eiji Saitoh,
  • Ken-ichi Uchida

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13754
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The spin Peltier effect produces a temperature difference along the direction of a spin current. Here, the authors use an active thermography technique to visualize the temperature modulation induced by a spin current injected into a magnetic insulator from an adjacent metal.