Published December 2011
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Journal article
Local spin-seebeck effect enabling two-dimensional position sensing
- 1. Tohoku Univ., Inst. for Materials Research, Sendai, Miyagi (Japan)
- 2. NEC Corp., Green Innovation Research Laboratories, Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan)
Description
The spin-Seebeck effect (SSE) in magnetic insulators is shown to be applicable to two-dimensional (2D) position sensing using an Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) slab covered with a Pt-film mesh. When a part of the YIG-slab/Pt-mesh sample was heated, the position of the heated part of the sample was found to be known from the measured SSE signals in the Pt mesh. Since the SSE-based position-sensing method allows commonly-used insulators to produce 2D position information, it may be useful for constructing versatile thermally-driven user-interface devices and image-information sensors. (author)
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Journal Volume
- 50
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Journal Page Range
- p. 120211.1-120211.3
- ISSN
- 0021-4922
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Japan
- Country of Input or Organization
- Japan
- INIS RN
- 43065119
- Subject category
- S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ELECTRIC FIELDS; HALL EFFECT; IRON OXIDES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLATINUM; POSITION SENSITIVE DETECTORS; SEEBECK EFFECT; SPIN; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; CHALCOGENIDES; ELEMENTS; IRON COMPOUNDS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; METALS; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PLATINUM METALS; RADIATION DETECTORS; TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS
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- Notes
- 29 refs., 3 figs.