Large Anomalous Nernst Effects at Room Temperature in Fe<sub>3</sub>Pt Thin Films
Minghang Li, Hanqi Pi, Yunchi Zhao, Ting Lin, Qinghua Zhang, Xinzhe Hu, C. M. Xiong, Zhiyong Qiu, Lichen Wang, Ying Zhang, Jianwang Cai, Wu‐Ming Liu, Jirong Sun, Fengxia Hu, Lin Gu, Hongming Weng, Quansheng Wu, Shouguo Wang, Yunzhong Chen, Baogen Shen
Abstract
Abstract Heat current in ferromagnets can generate a transverse electric voltage perpendicular to magnetization, known as anomalous Nernst effect (ANE). ANE originates intrinsically from the combination of large Berry curvature and density of states near the Fermi energy. It shows technical advantages over the conventional longitudinal Seebeck effect in converting waste heat to electricity due to its unique transverse geometry. However, materials showing giant ANE remain to be explored. Herein, a large ANE thermopower of S yx ≈ 2 µV K −1 at room temperature in ferromagnetic Fe 3 Pt epitaxial films is reported, which also show a giant transverse thermoelectric conductivity of α yx ≈ 4 A K −1 m −1 and a remarkable coercive field of 1300 Oe. The theoretical analysis reveals that the strong spin‐orbit interaction in addition to the hybridization between Pt 5 d and Fe 3 d electrons leads to a series of distinct energy gaps and large Berry curvature in the Brillouin zone, which is the key for the large ANE. These results highlight the important roles of both Berry curvature and spin‐orbit coupling in achieving large ANE at zero magnetic field, providing pathways to explore materials with giant transverse thermoelectric effect without an external magnetic field.