journal article·2026-09Open access

Recollections on spin caloritronics

Gerrit E.W. Bauer, Eiji Saitoh, Bart J. van Wees

Abstract

The authors summarize their personal recollections of the beginnings of spin caloritronics and present outlooks for the near future. • The authors summarize their personal recollections of the beginnings of spin caloritronics. • We treat the history of spin-dependent Seebeck/Peltier and spin Seebeck/Peltier separately. • We provide 3 outlooks for the near future.
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