Creating a three dimensional intrinsic electric dipole on rotated CrI${}_3$ bilayers

Abstract

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are being explored as a novel multiferroic platform. One of the most studied magnetoelectric multiferroic 2D materials are antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFM) CrI${}_3$ bilayers. Neglecting magnetism, those bilayers possess a crystalline point of inversion, which is only removed by the antiparallel spin configuration among its two constituent monolayers. The resultant intrinsic electric dipole on those bilayers has a magnitude no larger than 0.04 pC/m, it points out-of-plane, and it reverts direction when the--Ising-like--cromium spins are flipped (toward opposite layers {\em versus} away from opposite layers). The combined presence of antiferromagnetism and a weak intrinsic electric dipole makes this material a two-dimensional magnetoelectric multiferroic. Here, we remove the crystalline center of inversion of the bilayer by a relative $60^{\circ }$ rotation of its constituent monolayers. This process {\em enhances} the out-of-plane intrinsic electric dipole tenfold with respect to its magnitude in the non-rotated AFM bilayer and also creates an even stronger and switchable in-plane intrinsic electric dipole. The ability to create a three-dimensional electric dipole is important, because it enhances the magnetoelectric coupling on this experimentally accessible 2D material, which is explicitly calculated here as well.

arXiv commentAccepted at PRB on May 1, 2023

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