| Budget Amount *help |
¥23,660,000 (Direct Cost: ¥18,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥5,460,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥17,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,020,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Anomalous Nernst effect is the thermoelectric phenomena in which an electric field appears to outer product direction between temperature gradient and magnetization. Anomalous Nernst electric field always appear to parallel direction to the surface of heat source, therefore, it is easy to increase serious voltage by making a laterally connected thermopile structure. This simple structure enable us to increase effective heat source area with low cost, which is essential advantage for thermoelectric applications especially for energy harvesting. In this project, we focused on Heusler compounds to observe higher signal of anomalous Nernst effect. As a result of systematic analysis of crystal structure, Seebeck effect, anomalous Hall and Nernst effects in Heusler, finally we have successfully obtained tentative strategy to explore new materials showing high anomalous Nernst effect, which will be beneficial for further development of anomalous Nernst based novel thermoelectric technology.
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