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Title: Effect of nickel substitution on magnetism in the layered van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2

Abstract

We have grown a series of nickel-substituted single crystals of the layered ferromagnet (FM) Fe3GeTe2. The large single-crystalline samples of (Fe1–xNix)3GeTe2 with x = 0–0.84 were characterized with single-crystal x-ray diffraction, magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistance, and muon spin spectroscopy. We find Fe can be continuously substituted with Ni with only a minor structural variation. In addition, FM order is suppressed from TC = 212K for x = 0 down to TC = 50K for x=0.3, which is accompanied by a strong suppression of saturated and effective moments, and Curie-Weiss temperature. Beyond x=0.3, the FM order is continuously smeared into a FM cluster-glass phase, with a nearly full magnetic volume fraction. Here, we attribute the observed change in the nature of magnetic order to the intrinsically disordered structure of Fe3GeTe2 and subsequent dilution effects from the Ni substitution.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Ames Lab. and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
  2. Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland)
  3. Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
  4. Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States); Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1481861
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1478688
Report Number(s):
IS-J-9806
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950; PRBMDO
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH111358; GBMF4411
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 98; Journal Issue: 14; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

Citation Formats

Drachuck, Gil, Salman, Zaher, Masters, Morgan W., Taufour, Valentin, Lamichhane, Tej N., Lin, Qisheng, Straszheim, Warren E., Bud'ko, Sergey L., and Canfield, Paul C. Effect of nickel substitution on magnetism in the layered van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.98.144434.
Drachuck, Gil, Salman, Zaher, Masters, Morgan W., Taufour, Valentin, Lamichhane, Tej N., Lin, Qisheng, Straszheim, Warren E., Bud'ko, Sergey L., & Canfield, Paul C. Effect of nickel substitution on magnetism in the layered van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.144434
Drachuck, Gil, Salman, Zaher, Masters, Morgan W., Taufour, Valentin, Lamichhane, Tej N., Lin, Qisheng, Straszheim, Warren E., Bud'ko, Sergey L., and Canfield, Paul C. Wed . "Effect of nickel substitution on magnetism in the layered van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.144434. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1481861.
@article{osti_1481861,
title = {Effect of nickel substitution on magnetism in the layered van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2},
author = {Drachuck, Gil and Salman, Zaher and Masters, Morgan W. and Taufour, Valentin and Lamichhane, Tej N. and Lin, Qisheng and Straszheim, Warren E. and Bud'ko, Sergey L. and Canfield, Paul C.},
abstractNote = {We have grown a series of nickel-substituted single crystals of the layered ferromagnet (FM) Fe3GeTe2. The large single-crystalline samples of (Fe1–xNix)3GeTe2 with x = 0–0.84 were characterized with single-crystal x-ray diffraction, magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistance, and muon spin spectroscopy. We find Fe can be continuously substituted with Ni with only a minor structural variation. In addition, FM order is suppressed from TC = 212K for x = 0 down to TC = 50K for x=0.3, which is accompanied by a strong suppression of saturated and effective moments, and Curie-Weiss temperature. Beyond x=0.3, the FM order is continuously smeared into a FM cluster-glass phase, with a nearly full magnetic volume fraction. Here, we attribute the observed change in the nature of magnetic order to the intrinsically disordered structure of Fe3GeTe2 and subsequent dilution effects from the Ni substitution.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.98.144434},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 14,
volume = 98,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Wed Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: (a) x-ray diffraction spectrum measured on a single crystal showing (00L) diffraction peaks. Orange squares denote diffraction peaks from secondary phases and/or flux droplets on the surface of the crystal remnant post growth. (b) The structure of the end members, Fe3GeTe2 and Ni3GeTe2. The Shading of the spheres represent the occupancy of each site, for example, the Fe2 site in Fe3GeTe2 has reported 0.85 site occupancy. (c) Ni substitution (more » $x$ WDS) determined by WDS vs. the nominal Ni composition of the (Fe1−xNix)3GeTe2 crystals. The red line is a second order polynomial fit to the data ($x$WDS = 1.64(5)$x$nominal − 0.63(6)$x$$^{2}_{nominal}$). Inset: a picture of a crucible limited crystal of a crystal with $x$WDS = 0.16. (d) c-lattice parameter vs. Ni substitution inferred from (00L) refinement (full spheres) and from full single crystal refinement (open squares). (e) Refined Fe/Ni site occupancy vs $x$WDS.« less

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