National Institute for Materials Science

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yuya Sakuraba

Kazuhiro Hono

Hiroaki Sukegawa

Taisuke Sasaki

Jun Liu

Jiamin Chen

Tomoya Nakatani

Yohei Kinoshita

Yoshio Miura

Kresna Bondan Fathoni

Weinan Zhou

Kenichi Uchida

Kaoru Yamamoto

Bunpei Masaoka

The present disclosure provides: a magnetoresistive element having a large magnetoresistance change ratio (MR ratio); and a magnetic sensor, a reproducing head and a magnetic recording and reproducing device.

Vertical thermoelectric conversion element and device with thermoelectric power generation application or heat flow sensor using same

The present disclosure provides: a magnetoresistive element having a large magnetoresistance change ratio (MR ratio); and a magnetic sensor, a reproducing head and a magnetic recording and reproducing device. The magnetoresistive element comprises a magnetoresistive film including a pair of body centered cubic (bcc) crystal structure CoFe ferromagnetic layers with a (001) crystal orientation, the pair of layers separated by a non-magnetic layer of Cu with bcc crystal structure.

Magnetoresistive element, magnetic sensor, reproducing head, and magnetic recording and reproducing device

To provide a key monocrystalline magnetoresistance element necessary for accomplishing mass production and cost reduction for applying a monocrystalline giant magnetoresistance element using a Heusler alloy to practical devices. A monocrystalline magnetoresistance element of the present invention includes a silicon substrate, a base layerhaving a B2 structure laminated on the silicon substrate, a first non-magnetic layerlaminated on the base layerhaving a B2 structure, and a giant magnetoresistance effect layerhaving at least one laminate layer including a lower ferromagnetic layer, an upper ferromagnetic layer, and a second non-magnetic layerdisposed between the lower ferromagnetic layerand the upper ferromagnetic layer

Monocrystalline magneto resistance element, method for producing the same and method for using same

Provided is a thermoelectric material which can increase its anomalous Nernst angle. The thermoelectric material of a magnetic material for a thermoelectric power generation device employs the anomalous Nernst effect, including iron doped with iridium.

Thermoelectric material

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Yuya Sakuraba