The Damage analysis for irradiation tolerant spin-driven thermoelectric device based on single-crystalline YFeO/Pt heterostructures

Ieda, Junichi; Okayasu, Satoru; Harii, Kazuya*; Kobata, Masaaki; Yoshii, Kenji; Fukuda, Tatsuo; Ishida, Masahiko*; Saito, Eiji

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 58(8), p.1301106_1 - 1301106_6, 2022/08

https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2022.3145888

The combination of spin-driven thermoelectric (STE) devices based on spin Seebeck effect (SSE), and radioactive isotopes as heat sources, has potential as a next-generation method of power generation in applications such as power supplies for space probes. However, there has been very limited knowledge available indicating the irradiation tolerance of spin thermoelectric devices. Through analysis using a heavy ion-beam accelerator and the hard X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (HAXPES) measurements, we show that a prototypical STE device based on YFeO/Pt heterostructures has tolerance to irradiation of high-energy heavy-ion beams. We used 320 MeV gold ion beams modeling cumulative damages due to fission products emitted from the surface of spent nuclear fuels. By varying the dose level, we confirmed that the thermoelectric and magnetic properties of the SSE elements are not affected by the ion-irradiation dose up to ions/cm fluence and that the SSE signal is extinguished around ions/cm, in which the ion tracks almost fully cover the sample surface. In addition, the HAXPES measurements were performed to understand the effects at the interface of YFeO/Pt. The HAXPES measurements suggest that the chemical reaction that diminishes the SSE signals is enhanced with the increase of the irradiation dose. We share the current understandings of the damage analysis in YFeO/Pt for developing better STE devices applicable to harsh environmental usages.

Observation of nuclear-spin Seebeck effect

Kikkawa, Takashi*; Reitz, D.*; Ito, Hiroaki*; Makiuchi, Takahiko*; Sugimoto, Takaaki*; Tsunekawa, Kakeru*; Daimon, Shunsuke*; Oyanagi, Koichi*; Ramos, R.*; Takahashi, Saburo*; et al.

Nature Communications (Internet), 12, p.4356_1 - 4356_7, 2021/07

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24623-6

Tolerance of spin-Seebeck thermoelectricity against irradiation by swift heavy ions

Okayasu, Satoru; Harii, Kazuya*; Kobata, Masaaki; Yoshii, Kenji; Fukuda, Tatsuo; Ishida, Masahiko*; Ieda, Junichi; Saito, Eiji

Journal of Applied Physics, 128(8), p.083902_1 - 083902_7, 2020/08

AA2020-0071.pdf:0.69MB

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0014229

Magnon polarons in the spin Peltier effect

Yahiro, Reimei*; Kikkawa, Takashi*; Ramos, R.*; Oyanagi, Koichi*; Hioki, Tomosato*; Daimon, Shunsuke*; Saito, Eiji

Physical Review B, 101(2), p.024407_1 - 024407_7, 2020/01

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.024407

Magnon pairs and spin-nematic correlation in the spin Seebeck effect

Hirobe, Daichi*; Sato, Masahiro*; Hagihara, Masato*; Shiomi, Yuki*; Masuda, Takatsugu*; Saito, Eiji

Physical Review Letters, 123(11), p.117202_1 - 117202_7, 2019/09

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.117202

Heat and spin interconversion

Onuma, Yuichi; Matsuo, Mamoru*; Maekawa, Sadamichi; Saito, Eiji

Magune, 12(5), p.217 - 224, 2017/10

no abstracts in English

Tolerance of spin-Seebeck thermoelectricity against irradiation by swift heavy ions

Okayasu, Satoru; Ieda, Junichi; Harii, Kazuya*; Ono, Masao*; Kobata, Masaaki; Fukuda, Tatsuo; Yoshii, Kenji; Ishida, Masahiko*; Saito, Eiji

no journal, , 

For development of spintronics applications in nuclear engineering, high energy swift ion irradiations on spin-Seebeck devices are achieved. The Tolerance of spin-Seebeck thermoelectricity of the devices against irradiation by swift heavy ions is tough enough under a harsh environment such as very close to a spent nuclear fuel.