A research team from NIMS and UTokyo has proposed and demonstrated that the transverse magneto-thermoelectric conversion in magnetic materials can be utilized with much higher performance than previously by developing artificial materials comprising alternately and obliquely stacked multilayers of a magnetic metal and semiconductor.
The work is published in the journal Nature Communications.
When a temperature gradient is applied to a magnetic conductor, a charge current is generated in a direction orthogonal to the directions of both temperature gradient and magnetization of the magnetic conductor.
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