• 文献标题:   Thermoelectric effect in a graphene sheet connected to ferromagnetic leads
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHOU BH, ZHOU BL, LIU ZQ, ZHOU GH
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   0021-8979 EI 1089-7550
  • 通讯作者地址:   Shaoyang Univ
  • 被引频次:   7
  • DOI:   10.1063/1.4757947
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

We theoretically investigate the thermoelectric property of a graphene sheet coupled to two ferromagnetic electrodes with noncollinear magnetic moments. By using the nonequilibrium Green's function combining with the tight-binding Hamiltonian, it is demonstrated that the thermopower weakly depends on the polarization strength as well as on magnetic configuration of the leads. On the contrary, the electronic contribution to the thermal conductance is sensitive to both the polarization strength and the relative alignment of magnetization directions. Furthermore, the thermopower shows a linear dependence on temperature and an inverse dependence on the Fermi energy in the graphene, which agrees well the recent experimental measurements. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4757947]