期刊
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
卷 27, 期 29, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/27/29/295302
关键词
spin thermoelectric effect; germanene; exchange field; staggered potential
资金
- NSFC [61274101, 11174168]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2011CB606405]
The spin thermoelectric performance in a germanene nano-ribbon is studied by using the nonequilibrium Green's function method. We demonstrate theoretically that the temperature bias Delta T can generate spin thermopower when an exchange field breaks the edge states of germanene leads. However, the spin thermoelectric efficiency is quite low with its maximum Z(s)T similar or equal to 0.01. When applying strong electric field in the central region, a relatively large spindependent band gap can be opened, and hence the spin figure of merit is predicted to be more than 100 times larger than the case without external field. The remarkably enhancement of ZsT (larger than one) comes from the suppression of the thermal conductance and the improvement of the spin Seebeck effect. These striking properties make ferromagnetic leads germanene nano-ribbon a promising pure spin thermoelectric nanogenerator.
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