Thickness-dependent magnetic order in CrI3 single crystals
Abstract
Two-dimensional (2D) materials with intrinsic ferromagnetism offers unique opportunity to engineer new functionalities in nano-spintronics. One such material is CrI3, showing long-range magnetic order in monolayer with the Curie temperature (Tc) of 45 K. In this work, we study detailed evolution of magnetic transition and magnetic critical properties in response to systematic reduction in crystal thickness down to 50 nm. Bulk Tc of 61 K is gradually suppressed to 57 K, however, the satellite transition at T*=45 K is observed layer-independent at fixed magnetic field of 1 kOe. The origin of T* is proposed to be a crossover from pinning to depinning of magnetic domain walls. The reduction of thickness facilitates a field-driven metamagnetic transition around 20 kOe with out-of-plane field, in contrast to the continuous changes with in-plane field. The critical analysis around Tc elucidates the mean-field type interactions in microscale-thick CrI3.
- Authors:
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- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1571405
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-212218-2019-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientific Reports
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Citation Formats
Liu, Yu, Wu, Lijun, Tong, Xiao, Li, Jun, Tao, Jing, Zhu, Yimei, and Petrovic, C. Thickness-dependent magnetic order in CrI3 single crystals. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-50000-x.
Liu, Yu, Wu, Lijun, Tong, Xiao, Li, Jun, Tao, Jing, Zhu, Yimei, & Petrovic, C. Thickness-dependent magnetic order in CrI3 single crystals. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50000-x
Liu, Yu, Wu, Lijun, Tong, Xiao, Li, Jun, Tao, Jing, Zhu, Yimei, and Petrovic, C. Thu .
"Thickness-dependent magnetic order in CrI3 single crystals". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50000-x. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1571405.
@article{osti_1571405,
title = {Thickness-dependent magnetic order in CrI3 single crystals},
author = {Liu, Yu and Wu, Lijun and Tong, Xiao and Li, Jun and Tao, Jing and Zhu, Yimei and Petrovic, C.},
abstractNote = {Two-dimensional (2D) materials with intrinsic ferromagnetism offers unique opportunity to engineer new functionalities in nano-spintronics. One such material is CrI3, showing long-range magnetic order in monolayer with the Curie temperature (Tc) of 45 K. In this work, we study detailed evolution of magnetic transition and magnetic critical properties in response to systematic reduction in crystal thickness down to 50 nm. Bulk Tc of 61 K is gradually suppressed to 57 K, however, the satellite transition at T*=45 K is observed layer-independent at fixed magnetic field of 1 kOe. The origin of T* is proposed to be a crossover from pinning to depinning of magnetic domain walls. The reduction of thickness facilitates a field-driven metamagnetic transition around 20 kOe with out-of-plane field, in contrast to the continuous changes with in-plane field. The critical analysis around Tc elucidates the mean-field type interactions in microscale-thick CrI3.},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-019-50000-x},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 1,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {9}
}
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