Uncovering the lowest thickness limit for room-temperature ferromagnetism of Cr$_{1.6}$Te$_{2}$

Sandeep Kumar Chaluvadi; Shyni Punathum Chalil; Anupam Jana; Deepak Dagur; Giovanni Vinai; Federico Motti; Jun Fujii; Moussa Mezhoud; Ulrike Lüders; Vincent Polewczyk; Ivana Vobornik; Giorgio Rossi; Chiara Bigi; Younghun Hwang; Thomas Olsen; Pasquale Orgiani; Federico Mazzola

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c01005

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Uncovering the lowest thickness limit for room-temperature ferromagnetism of Cr $_{1.6}$ Te $_{2}$

arXiv:2403.11977 · doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c01005

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Metallic ferromagnetic transition metal dichalcogenides have emerged as important building blocks for scalable magnonics and memory applications. Downscaling such systems to the ultra-thin limit is critical to integrate them into technology. Here, we achieved layer-by-layer control over the transition metal dichalcogenide Cr $_{1.6}$ Te $_{2}$ by using pulsed laser deposition, and we uncovered the minimum critical thickness above which room temperature magnetic order is maintained. The electronic and magnetic structure is explored experimentally and theoretically and it is shown that the films exhibit strong in-plane magnetic anisotropy as a consequence of large spin-orbit effects. Our study elucidates both magnetic and electronic properties of Cr $_{1.6}$ Te $_{2}$ , and corroborates the importance of intercalation to tune the magnetic properties of nanoscale materials architectures.

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Uncovering the lowest thickness limit for room-temperature ferromagnetism of Cr $_{1.6}$ Te $_{2}$

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Uncovering the lowest thickness limit for room-temperature ferromagnetism of Cr $_{1.6}$ Te $_{2}$