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TY - JOUR
T1 - Emergence of electric-field-tunable interfacial ferromagnetism in 2D antiferromagnet heterostructures
AU - Cheng, Guanghui
AU - Rahman, Mohammad Mushfiqur
AU - He, Zhiping
AU - Allcca, Andres Llacsahuanga
AU - Rustagi, Avinash
AU - Stampe, Kirstine Aggerbeck
AU - Zhu, Yanglin
AU - Yan, Shaohua
AU - Tian, Shangjie
AU - Mao, Zhiqiang
AU - Lei, Hechang
AU - Watanabe, Kenji
AU - Taniguchi, Takashi
AU - Upadhyaya, Pramey
AU - Chen, Yong P.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - Van der Waals (vdW) magnet heterostructures have emerged as new platforms to explore exotic magnetic orders and quantum phenomena. Here, we study heterostructures of layered antiferromagnets, CrI3 and CrCl3, with perpendicular and in-plane magnetic anisotropy, respectively. Using magneto-optical Kerr effect microscopy, we demonstrate out-of-plane magnetic order in the CrCl3 layer proximal to CrI3, with ferromagnetic interfacial coupling between the two. Such an interlayer exchange field leads to higher critical temperature than that of either CrI3 or CrCl3 alone. We further demonstrate significant electric-field control of the coercivity, attributed to the naturally broken structural inversion symmetry of the heterostructure allowing unprecedented direct coupling between electric field and interfacial magnetism. These findings illustrate the opportunity to explore exotic magnetic phases and engineer spintronic devices in vdW heterostructures.
AB - Van der Waals (vdW) magnet heterostructures have emerged as new platforms to explore exotic magnetic orders and quantum phenomena. Here, we study heterostructures of layered antiferromagnets, CrI3 and CrCl3, with perpendicular and in-plane magnetic anisotropy, respectively. Using magneto-optical Kerr effect microscopy, we demonstrate out-of-plane magnetic order in the CrCl3 layer proximal to CrI3, with ferromagnetic interfacial coupling between the two. Such an interlayer exchange field leads to higher critical temperature than that of either CrI3 or CrCl3 alone. We further demonstrate significant electric-field control of the coercivity, attributed to the naturally broken structural inversion symmetry of the heterostructure allowing unprecedented direct coupling between electric field and interfacial magnetism. These findings illustrate the opportunity to explore exotic magnetic phases and engineer spintronic devices in vdW heterostructures.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-022-34812-6
DO - 10.1038/s41467-022-34812-6
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 36522317
AN - SCOPUS:85144137160
VL - 13
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
SN - 2041-1723
M1 - 7348
ER -