Electronic and magnetic characterization of epitaxial CrBr${}_3$ monolayers

Abstract

The ability to imprint a given material property to another through proximity effect in layered two-dimensional materials has opened the way to the creation of designer materials. Here, we use molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) for a direct synthesis of a superconductor-magnet hybrid heterostructure by combining superconducting niobium diselenide (NbSe${}_2$) with the monolayer ferromagnetic chromium tribromide (CrBr${}_3$). Using different characterization techniques and density-functional theory (DFT) calculations, we have confirmed that the CrBr${}_3$ monolayer retains its ferromagnetic ordering with a magnetocrystalline anisotropy favoring an out-of-plane spin orientation. Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements show a slight reduction of the superconducting gap of NbSe${}_2$ and the formation of a vortex lattice on the CrBr${}_3$ layer in experiments under an external magnetic field. Our results contribute to the broader framework of exploiting proximity effects to realize novel phenomena in 2D heterostructures.

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