Designing magnetic properties in CrSBr through hydrostatic pressure and ligand substitution

Abstract

The ability to control magnetic properties of materials is crucial for fundamental research and underpins many information technologies. In this context, two-dimensional materials are a particularly exciting platform due to their high degree of tunability and ease of implementation into nanoscale devices. Here we report two approaches for manipulating the A-type antiferromagnetic properties of the layered semiconductor CrSBr through hydrostatic pressure and ligand substitution. Hydrostatic pressure compresses the unit cell, increasing the interlayer exchange energy while lowering the Néel temperature. Ligand substitution, realized synthetically through Cl alloying, anisotropically compresses the unit cell and suppresses the Cr-halogen covalency, reducing the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy and decreasing the Néel temperature. A detailed structural analysis combined with first-principles calculations reveal that alterations in the magnetic properties are intricately related to changes in direct Cr-Cr exchange interactions and the Cr-anion superexchange pathways. Further, we demonstrate that Cl alloying enables chemical tuning of the interlayer coupling from antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic, which is unique amongst known two-dimensional magnets. The magnetic tunability, combined with a high ordering temperature, chemical stability, and functional semiconducting properties, make CrSBr an ideal candidate for pre- and post-synthetic design of magnetism in two-dimensional materials.

Main text: 17 pages, 4 figures. Supporting Information: 34 pages, 32 figures, 4 tables

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