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Thermal spin power without magnets

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The spin Seebeck effect has hitherto relied on a temperature gradient in a magnetic system to generate an electric current based on the intrinsic spin of electrons. It has now been demonstrated in a non-magnetic material. See Letter p.210

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Figure 1: Spin Seebeck effect driven by a magnetic field.

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  1. Tero T. Heikkilä is at the Low Temperature Laboratory (OVLL), Aalto University, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland.,

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  2. Yaroslav Tserkovnyak is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.,

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