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Title: Two-dimensional itinerant ferromagnetism in atomically thin Fe3GeTe2

Journal Article · · Nature Materials
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  1. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  2. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  3. Univ. of Hong Kong (China). Dept. of Physics and Center of Theoretical and Computational Physics
  4. Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  5. Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
  6. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science & Technology Division
  7. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering

Discoveries of intrinsic two-dimensional (2D) ferromagnetism in van der Waals (vdW) crystals provide an interesting arena for studying fundamental 2D magnetism and devices that employ localized spins1,2,3,4. However, an exfoliable vdW material that exhibits intrinsic 2D itinerant magnetism remains elusive. We demonstrate that Fe3GeTe2 (FGT), an exfoliable vdW magnet, exhibits robust 2D ferromagnetism with strong perpendicular anisotropy when thinned down to a monolayer. Layer-number-dependent studies reveal a crossover from 3D to 2D Ising ferromagnetism for thicknesses less than 4 nm (five layers), accompanied by a fast drop of the Curie temperature (TC) from 207 K to 130 K in the monolayer. For FGT flakes thicker than ~15 nm, a distinct magnetic behaviour emerges in an intermediate temperature range, which we show is due to the formation of labyrinthine domain patterns. Our work introduces an atomically thin ferromagnetic metal that could be useful for the study of controllable 2D itinerant ferromagnetism and for engineering spintronic vdW heterostructures5.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); Croucher Foundation
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725; 1719797; SC0012509; DMR-1719797; DMR-1420634; SC0018153
OSTI ID:
1474480
Journal Information:
Nature Materials, Vol. 17, Issue 9; ISSN 1476-1122
Publisher:
Springer Nature - Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 683 works
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