通过氧气操纵增强自旋Seebeck效应
Jeong-Mok Kim1, Seok-Jong Kim1,2, Min-Gu Kang1,3
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Korea.
Nature communications
|June 8, 2023
概括
通过氧化设备中的铁磁体,可以显著增强Spin Seebeck效应 (SSE). 这一突破将热电转换效率提升了数量级,为更好的废热利用铺平了道路.
科学领域:
- 凝聚物质物理学 凝聚物质物理学
- 材料科学 材料科学 材料科学
- 这就是Spintronics.
背景情况:
- 旋转西贝克效应 (SSE) 使用磁子从温度梯度产生电压.
- 由于其用于废热采集的简单几何形状,SSE对热电设备具有前景.
- 目前的SSE应用受到低热电转换效率的限制.
研究的目的:
- 调查提高Spin Seebeck效应的热电转换效率的方法.
- 探索界面氧化对正常金属/铁磁/氧化物结构中的SSE性能的影响.
主要方法:
- 制造W/CoFeB/AlOx薄膜结构的制造.
- 使用电压诱导的CoFeB层的界面氧化.
- 测量通过SSE.产生的热电信号.
主要成果:
- CoFeB的界面氧化大大增强了SSE信号的一个数量级.
- 增强机制涉及氧化铁磁体中减少的交换相互作用.
- 这导致磁子和电子之间的温度差异增加和/或磁子化学电位梯度增加.
结论:
- 接口氧化是一种可行的策略,可以显著提高SSE热电转换效率.
- 这些发现为开发基于SSE的更高效的热电设备提供了有希望的途径.
- 预计这项研究将刺激进一步研究优化SSE的实际应用.
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