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Electron spins blow hot and cold

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The spin-dependent Peltier effect has been demonstrated in a nanostructure consisting of a non-magnetic metal sandwiched between two ferromagnetic layers.

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Figure 1: Thermoelectrics with a spin.

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  1. Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein is at the Walther-Meissner-Institut, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, D-85748 Garching, Germany,

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  2. Gerrit E. W. Bauer is at the Institute for Materials Research of Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan, and the Kavli Institute of NanoScience, Technical University of Delft, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands,

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Goennenwein, S., Bauer, G. Electron spins blow hot and cold. Nature Nanotech 7, 145–147 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2012.26

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