scholarly journals Long-range thermoelectric effects in mesoscopic superconductor–normal metal structures

2005 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. Volkov ◽  
V. V. Pavlovskii
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1579-1585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Kolenda ◽  
Peter Machon ◽  
Detlef Beckmann ◽  
Wolfgang Belzig

Background: Thermoelectric effects result from the coupling of charge and heat transport and can be used for thermometry, cooling and harvesting of thermal energy. The microscopic origin of thermoelectric effects is a broken electron–hole symmetry, which is usually quite small in metal structures. In addition, thermoelectric effects decrease towards low temperatures, which usually makes them vanishingly small in metal nanostructures in the sub-Kelvin regime. Results: We report on a combined experimental and theoretical investigation of thermoelectric effects in superconductor/ferromagnet hybrid structures. We investigate the dependence of thermoelectric currents on the thermal excitation, as well as on the presence of a dc bias voltage across the junction. Conclusion: Large thermoelectric effects are observed in superconductor/ferromagnet and superconductor/normal-metal hybrid structures. The spin-independent signals observed under finite voltage bias are shown to be reciprocal to the physics of superconductor/normal-metal microrefrigerators. The spin-dependent thermoelectric signals in the linear regime are due to the coupling of spin and heat transport, and can be used to design more efficient refrigerators.


2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (22) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler R. Naibert ◽  
Hryhoriy Polshyn ◽  
Rita Garrido-Menacho ◽  
Malcolm Durkin ◽  
Brian Wolin ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. B. Tan ◽  
A. Laitinen ◽  
N. S. Kirsanov ◽  
A. Galda ◽  
V. M. Vinokur ◽  
...  

AbstractGeneration of electric voltage in a conductor by applying a temperature gradient is a fundamental phenomenon called the Seebeck effect. This effect and its inverse is widely exploited in diverse applications ranging from thermoelectric power generators to temperature sensing. Recently, a possibility of thermoelectricity arising from the interplay of the non-local Cooper pair splitting and the elastic co-tunneling in the hybrid normal metal-superconductor-normal metal structures was predicted. Here, we report the observation of the non-local Seebeck effect in a graphene-based Cooper pair splitting device comprising two quantum dots connected to an aluminum superconductor and present a theoretical description of this phenomenon. The observed non-local Seebeck effect offers an efficient tool for producing entangled electrons.


2010 ◽  
Vol 82 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo-Qiao Zha ◽  
Lucian Covaci ◽  
Shi-Ping Zhou ◽  
F. M. Peeters

2013 ◽  
Vol 176 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 337-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Wang ◽  
V. Yefremenko ◽  
C. L. Chang ◽  
J. Mehl ◽  
V. Novosad ◽  
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