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Thinks globally but acts locally

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Experiments on magnetic insulators and semiconductors imply that the spin Seebeck effect is conceptually different from the standard thermoelectric effect, launching new challenges for both theorists and experimentalists in spintronics.

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Figure 1: Spin Seebeck effect.

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  1. Jairo Sinova is in the Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, USA, and Institute of Physics ASCR, Cukrovarnická 10, 162 53 Praha 6, Czech Republic. sinova@physics.tamu.edu,

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Sinova, J. Thinks globally but acts locally. Nature Mater 9, 880–881 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2880

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