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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
卷 112, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4739292
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [11147162, 61106126]
- Jiangsu Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials [12KFJJ001]
We theoretically propose a single-spin-current thermal generator consisting of a Rashba quantum dot (QD), one hot electrode and two cold electrodes. The Rashba QD is directly coupled to the three electrodes, and there exists a bridge channel between the two cold electrodes. Our results show the QD device can be used to generate pure spin-up or spin-down currents in cold electrodes in the absence of bias voltages and magnetic materials. The underlying reason is a cooperative effect of the spin-dependent quantum interference effects originating from Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the QD and temperature gradients among the three electrodes. The working conditions for the single-spin-current thermal generator are also clearly presented. Moreover, we also find that the device can be converted from n-type to p-type or vice versa by a gate voltage. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4739292]
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