Interfacial triferroicity in monolayer chromium dihalide

Yang, Liu; Gao, Yaxin; Wu, Menghao; Jena, Puru

doi:10.1103/physrevb.105.094101

Title: Interfacial triferroicity in monolayer chromium dihalide

Journal Article · 28 February 2022 · Physical Review. B

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.105.094101 · OSTI ID:1979726

^[1]; Gao, Yaxin ^[2];

^[2]; Jena, Puru ^[3]

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan (China); OSTI
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan (China)
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (United States)

Couplings between different ferroics in two-dimensional (2D) materials, with atomic thickness and van der Waals surface, have been long sought but not yet realized. We show the first-principles evidence of unique triferroic couplings in recently synthesized CrI₂ monolayer. Its ferroelasticity with a low switching barrier stems from the Jahn-Teller effect. When coupled with the interaction of a substrate, a type of interfacial ferroelectricity with direction determined by the ferroelastic states can emerge which can be switched following the same low-barrier pathway of ferroelastic switching. The direction of its striped antiferromagnetism is also governed by its ferroelastic states, leading to a coupling of ferroelasticity, ferroelectricity, and magnetism. Such mechanism of multiferroic couplings, denoted as interfacial Jahn-Teller triferroicity, can be applied to other 2D materials such as CuC_l2 and their Janus monolayers, enabling electrical manipulation of spintronics for efficient nonvolatile random-access memories.

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Research Organization:: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE); National Natural Science Foundation of China

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-96ER45579

OSTI ID:: 1979726

Journal Information:: Physical Review. B, Journal Name: Physical Review. B Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 105; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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