Tunneling Anisotropic Thermopower and Seebeck Effects in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

Carlos López-Monís, Alex Matos-Abiague, Jaroslav Fabian

Published 2013-09-13Version 1

The Tunneling Anisotropic Magneto-Thermopower (TAMT) and the Tunneling Anisotropic Spin-Seebeck (TASS) effects are studied for a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) composed of a ferromagnetic electrode, a zinc-blende semiconductor and a normal metal. We develop a theoretical model for describing the dependence of a thermally induced tunneling current across the MTJ on the in-plane orientation of the magnetization in the ferromagnetic layer. The model accounts for the specific Bychkov-Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions present in these systems, which are responsible for the $C_{2v}$ symmetry we find in the TAMT and the TASS.