Covalent 2D Cr2Te3 ferromagnet

Mengying Bian; Aleksandr N. Kamenskii; Mengjiao Han; Wenjie Li; Sichen Wei; Xuezeng Tian; David B. Eason; Fan Sun; Keke He; Haolei Hui; Fei Yao; Renat Sabirianov; Jonathan P. Bird; Chunlei Yang; Jianwei Miao; Junhao Lin; Scott A. Crooker; Yanglong Hou; Hao Zeng

doi:10.1080/21663831.2020.1865469

Covalent 2D Cr₂Te₃ ferromagnet

Mengying Bian, Aleksandr N. Kamenskii, Mengjiao Han, Wenjie Li, Sichen Wei, Xuezeng Tian, David B. Eason, Fan Sun, Keke He, Haolei Hui, Fei Yao, Renat Sabirianov, Jonathan P. Bird, Chunlei Yang, Jianwei Miao, Junhao Lin, Scott A. Crooker, Yanglong Hou, Hao Zeng

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Abstract

To broaden the scope of van der Waals 2D magnets, we report the synthesis and magnetism of covalent 2D magnetic Cr₂Te₃ with a thickness down to one-unit-cell. The 2D Cr₂Te₃ crystals exhibit robust ferromagnetism with a Curie temperature of 180 K, a large perpendicular anisotropy of 7 × 10⁵ J m⁻³, and a high coercivity of ∼4.6 kG at 20 K. First principles calculations further show a transition from canted to collinear ferromagnetism, a transition from perpendicular to in-plane anisotropy, and emergent half-metallic behavior in atomically-thin Cr₂Te₃, suggesting its potential application for injecting carriers with high spin polarization into spintronic devices.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	205-212
Number of pages	8
Journal	Materials Research Letters
Volume	9
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/21663831.2020.1865469
State	Published - 2021

Keywords

2D magnets
CrTe
MOKE microscopy
half-metallicity
magnetic anisotropy

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General Materials Science

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