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Emergence of electric-field-tunable interfacial ferromagnetism in 2D antiferromagnet heterostructures

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Emergence of electric-field-tunable interfacial ferromagnetism in 2D antiferromagnet heterostructures. / Cheng, Guanghui; Rahman, Mohammad Mushfiqur; He, Zhiping et al.
In: Nature Communications, Vol. 13, 7348, 12.2022.

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Harvard

Cheng, G, Rahman, MM, He, Z, Allcca, AL, Rustagi, A, Stampe, KA, Zhu, Y, Yan, S, Tian, S, Mao, Z, Lei, H, Watanabe, K, Taniguchi, T, Upadhyaya, P & Chen, YP 2022, 'Emergence of electric-field-tunable interfacial ferromagnetism in 2D antiferromagnet heterostructures', Nature Communications, vol. 13, 7348. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34812-6

APA

Cheng, G., Rahman, M. M., He, Z., Allcca, A. L., Rustagi, A., Stampe, K. A., Zhu, Y., Yan, S., Tian, S., Mao, Z., Lei, H., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Upadhyaya, P., & Chen, Y. P. (2022). Emergence of electric-field-tunable interfacial ferromagnetism in 2D antiferromagnet heterostructures. Nature Communications, 13, [7348]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34812-6

CBE

Cheng G, Rahman MM, He Z, Allcca AL, Rustagi A, Stampe KA, Zhu Y, Yan S, Tian S, Mao Z, et al. 2022. Emergence of electric-field-tunable interfacial ferromagnetism in 2D antiferromagnet heterostructures. Nature Communications. 13:Article 7348. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34812-6

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Cheng G, Rahman MM, He Z, Allcca AL, Rustagi A, Stampe KA et al. Emergence of electric-field-tunable interfacial ferromagnetism in 2D antiferromagnet heterostructures. Nature Communications. 2022 Dec;13:7348. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34812-6

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Cheng, Guanghui ; Rahman, Mohammad Mushfiqur ; He, Zhiping et al. / Emergence of electric-field-tunable interfacial ferromagnetism in 2D antiferromagnet heterostructures. In: Nature Communications. 2022 ; Vol. 13.

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title = "Emergence of electric-field-tunable interfacial ferromagnetism in 2D antiferromagnet heterostructures",
abstract = "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.",
author = "Guanghui Cheng and Rahman, {Mohammad Mushfiqur} and Zhiping He and Allcca, {Andres Llacsahuanga} and Avinash Rustagi and Stampe, {Kirstine Aggerbeck} and Yanglin Zhu and Shaohua Yan and Shangjie Tian and Zhiqiang Mao and Hechang Lei and Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi and Pramey Upadhyaya and Chen, {Yong P.}",
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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.

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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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