Longitudinal spin Seebeck effect in a half-metallic La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 film

Abstract

The longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (LSSE) with a vertical temperature gradient is one of the most important mechanisms to generate pure spin current. Previous studies of the LSSE excited spin current focus mainly on the magnetic insulators, a little on ferromagnetic metals, and rarely on ferromagnetic half metals. In this work, we demonstrate a significant spin current injected from the highly spin polarized ferromagnetic half metal $\mathrm{L}{\mathrm{a}}_{0.7}\mathrm{S}{\mathrm{r}}_{0.3}\mathrm{Mn}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ by the LSSE. The sign of the thermal voltage can be reversed by using the spin current detector Cr with a large negative spin Hall angle. The ratio of the inverse spin Hall voltage to the total thermal signal in $\mathrm{L}{\mathrm{a}}_{0.7}\mathrm{S}{\mathrm{r}}_{0.3}\mathrm{Mn}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ is much larger than that in ferromagnetic metals, such as permalloy and CoFeB. The nontrivial temperature-dependent voltage suggests that the thermal transport in $\mathrm{L}{\mathrm{a}}_{0.7}\mathrm{S}{\mathrm{r}}_{0.3}\mathrm{Mn}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ is carried by magnons. This study provides insight into the mechanism of thermally excited spin current in ferromagnetic half metals and recommends the highly spin polarized $\mathrm{L}{\mathrm{a}}_{0.7}\mathrm{S}{\mathrm{r}}_{0.3}\mathrm{Mn}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ as a promising candidate for metal-based spin caloritronics devices.