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Title: High mobility in a van der Waals layered antiferromagnetic metal

Journal Article · · Science Advances
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  1. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
  2. Boston College, Boston, MA (United States)
  3. Max-Planck-Inst. für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart (Germany)
  4. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Van der Waals (vdW) materials with magnetic order have been heavily pursued for fundamental physics as well as for device design. Despite the rapid advances, so far, they are mainly insulating or semiconducting, and none of them has a high electronic mobility—a property that is rare in layered vdW materials in general. The realization of a high-mobility vdW material that also exhibits magnetic order would open the possibility for novel magnetic twistronic or spintronic devices. Here, we report very high carrier mobility in the layered vdW antiferromagnet GdTe3. The electron mobility is beyond 60,000 cm2V–1s–1, which is the highest among all known layered magnetic materials, to the best of our knowledge. Among all known vdW materials, the mobility of bulk GdTe3is comparable to that of black phosphorus. By mechanical exfoliation, we further demonstrate that GdTe3can be exfoliated to ultrathin flakes of three monolayers.

Research Organization:
Princeton Univ., NJ (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-07ER46419; AC02-06CH11357; DMR-1904442; DMR-0703406; DMR-1420541; ARO W911NF-12-1-0461; SC0017863; DMR-1709987; DMR-142054
OSTI ID:
1839265
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1599045
Journal Information:
Science Advances, Vol. 6, Issue 6; ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher:
AAASCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 59 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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