Spintronics and spincaloritronics in topological insulators

2013/01/23 by Takehito Yokoyama, Shuichi Murakami · 1 citation
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #Condensed matter physics #Electrical engineering #Engineering #Ferromagnetism #Graphene research and applications #Physics #Spintronics #Topological Materials and Phenomena #Topological insulator #Topology (electrical circuits) #cond-mat.mes-hall

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physe.2013.07.015

published as Physica E 55, 1 (2014) · 19 pages, 10 figures

arxiv created 2013/01/23 · openalex publication_date 2013/08/03 · arxiv updated 2015/06/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We study spintronics and spincaloritronics in topological insulators. We show spintronics effects in 2D topological insulator junctions and 3D topological insulators coupled to ferromagnets. We also investigate spin polarization on the surface of a topological insulator induced by a circularly polarized light and refraction at the junction between two topological insulators. As for spincaloritronics effects, we show transverse magnetic heat transport and thermoelectric transport in topological insulators. Finite-size effect in topological insulators and band structure engineering of interface states of topological insulators are also discussed.

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