Local and nonlocal spin Seebeck effect in lateral Pt-Cr2O3-Pt devices at low temperatures
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Abstract
We have studied thermally driven magnon spin transport (spin Seebeck effect, SSE) in heterostructures of antiferromagnetic α-Cr2O3 and Pt at low temperatures. Monitoring the amplitude of the local and nonlocal SSE signals as a function of temperature, we found that both decrease with increasing temperature and disappear above 100 K and 20 K, respectively. Additionally, both SSE signals show a tendency to saturate at low temperatures. The nonlocal SSE signal decays exponentially for intermediate injector-detector separation, consistent with magnon spin current transport in the relaxation regime. We estimate the magnon relaxation length of our α-Cr2O3 films to be around 500 nm at 3 K. This short magnon relaxation length along with the strong temperature dependence of the SSE signal indicate that temperature-dependent inelastic magnon scattering processes play an important role in the intermediate range magnon transport. Our observation is relevant to low-dissipation antiferromagnetic magnon memory and logic devices involving thermal magnon generation and transport.
Details
Original language | English |
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Article number | 0037860 |
Journal | APL materials |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2021 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
Mendeley | 26aa7074-f04e-3629-b19f-ba9462a6fb20 |
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