TY - GEN
T1 - Spin-Seebeck thermoelectric converter
AU - Kirihara, Akihiro
AU - Ishida, Masahiko
AU - Uchida, Ken Ichi
AU - Someya, Hiroko
AU - Iwasaki, Yuma
AU - Ihara, Kazuki
AU - Kohmoto, Shigeru
AU - Saitoh, Eiji
AU - Murakami, Tomoo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/4/26
Y1 - 2016/4/26
N2 - Thermoelectric conversion (TEC) technologies, which convert heat into electricity, have received a great attention, because they are expected to be a powerful approach to utilize wasted thermal energy. Here we present novel thermoelectric converters based on the spin Seebeck effect (SSE), and show their scaling law which is largely different from that of conventional TEC devices. We experimentally demonstrate that the TEC output signals straightforwardly increase with the size of the converters. This scaling law enables us to implement simple-structured thermoelectric converters by using productive film-coating methods. Such coating-based TEC techniques may pave the way for a wide range of applications using a variety of heat sources.
AB - Thermoelectric conversion (TEC) technologies, which convert heat into electricity, have received a great attention, because they are expected to be a powerful approach to utilize wasted thermal energy. Here we present novel thermoelectric converters based on the spin Seebeck effect (SSE), and show their scaling law which is largely different from that of conventional TEC devices. We experimentally demonstrate that the TEC output signals straightforwardly increase with the size of the converters. This scaling law enables us to implement simple-structured thermoelectric converters by using productive film-coating methods. Such coating-based TEC techniques may pave the way for a wide range of applications using a variety of heat sources.
KW - metal organic decomposition
KW - spin Seebeck effect
KW - thermoelectric conversion
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U2 - 10.1109/INEC.2014.7460433
DO - 10.1109/INEC.2014.7460433
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84971268360
T3 - 2014 IEEE International Nanoelectronics Conference, INEC 2014
BT - 2014 IEEE International Nanoelectronics Conference, INEC 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - IEEE International Nanoelectronics Conference, INEC 2014
Y2 - 28 July 2014 through 31 July 2014
ER -