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  • Article |

    Aluminium- and gallium-doped iron compounds show a large anomalous Nernst effect owing to a topological electronic structure, and their films are potentially suitable for designing low-cost, flexible microelectronic thermoelectric generators.

    • Akito Sakai
    • , Susumu Minami
    •  & Satoru Nakatsuji

  • Letter |

    A ‘magneto-Peltier effect’ produces cooling or heating in a material without junctions, by forcing a change in angle between the current and magnetization in a single ferromagnetic nickel slab.

    • Ken-ichi Uchida
    • , Shunsuke Daimon
    •  & Eiji Saitoh

  • Brief Communications Arising |

    • Li-Dong Zhao
    • , Shih-Han Lo
    •  & Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

  • News & Views |

    By tailoring the architecture of a bulk material at several different length scales, the ability of a semiconductor to convert heat into voltage has been optimized to a groundbreaking level of performance. See Letter p.414

    • Tom Nilges

  • Letter |

    Controlling the structure of thermoelectric materials on all length scales (atomic, nanoscale and mesoscale) relevant for phonon scattering makes it possible to increase the dimensionless figure of merit to more than two, which could allow for the recovery of a significant fraction of waste heat with which to produce electricity.

    • Kanishka Biswas
    • , Jiaqing He
    •  & Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

  • News & Views |

    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

    • Tero T. Heikkilä
    •  & Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

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