Do thermal effects always contribute to spin pumping signals

Spin pumping by ferromagnetic resonance is one of the most common technique to determine spin hall angles, Edelstein lengths or spin diffusion lengths of a large variety of materials. In recent years, rising concerns have appeared regarding the interpretation of these experiments, underlining that the signal could arise purely from thermoelectric effects, rather than from spin pumping and spin-charge interconversion. Here, we propose a method to evaluate the presence or absence of thermal effects in spin pumping signals, by combining bolometry and spin pumping by ferromagnetic resonance measurements, and comparing their timescale. Using a cavity to perform the experiments on PtNiFe and LSMOPt samples, we conclude on the absence of any measurable thermoelectric contribution such as the spin Seebeck and Anomalous Nernst effects.