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Nernst effect

[′nernst i‚fekt]
(physics)
The phenomenon that, when a conductor is placed in a magnetic field and an electric current flows through the conductor perpendicular to the field, a temperature gradient arises in the direction of the current.
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Furthermore, the combination of the thermoelectric effect termed the "Anomalous Nernst Effect,"(4) appearing due to the ferromagnetic properties added to the cobalt alloys and the spin Seebeck effect, have improved the thermoelectric conversion efficiency by more than 10 times.
calculations [40] from resistive transport; the squares are obtained from the Nernst effect [31].
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