Two-dimensional (2D) chromium-sulfides are synthesized by molecular beam epitaxy using graphene as a substrate. Structure characterization by employing scanning tunneling microscopy and low energy electron diffraction indicates that there are two 2D phases, Cr$_2$S$_3$-2D and Cr$_{2\frac{2}{3}}$S$_4$-2D, which have not been reported before. Cr$_{2\frac{2}{3}}$S$_4$-2D is related to bulk Cr$_5$S$_6$, but thinner than a bulk unit cell. For Cr$_2$S$_3$-2D, an even thinner material, no bulk counterpart exists. Both 2D materials are found to be structurally stable under ambient conditions and exhibit interesting electronic properties. Extensive first-principles calculations provide further insight into the electronic structure of these systems and indicate that they should be magnetic. Although single layers of CrS$_2$ were predicted to be stable by density functional theory calculations and reported in previous experimental studies, we were unable to synthesize CrS$_2$ under our range of experimental conditions.
Sulfur and sulfur-oxide compounds as potential optically active defects on SWCNTs
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University(波士顿大学电气与计算机工程系);Department of Chemistry, Boston University(波士顿大学化学系);Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory(阿贡国家实验室纳米材料中心);Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering, University of Chicago(芝加哥大学先进科学与工程联盟);Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University(莱斯大学材料科学与纳米工程);Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering(西北-阿贡科学与工程研究所);Materials Science Division, Boston University(波士顿大学材料科学部);Department of Physics, Boston University(波士顿大学物理系)
Stability of the In-Plane Room Temperature van der Waals Ferromagnet Chromium Ditelluride and Its Conversion to Chromium-Interleaved CrTe$_2$ Compounds
范德华磁性材料是新型自旋电子器件的基石,也是探索二维极限集体磁性现象的游乐场。铬-碲化合物与此相关。特别地,CrTe $_2$的1 $T$相已经被认为具有高于300 ° K的居里温度,这是层状材料类别中罕见且期望的性质,使其成为实际应用的候选物。然而,最近的文献揭示了一个强大的可变性,在报告的属性,包括磁性。使用电子显微镜,衍射和光谱技术,连同本地和宏观的磁力测量方法,我们的工作揭示了新的光散装1 $T$ -CrTe $_2$剥离的形式,具有从几个到几十个纳米的厚度范围内的薄片的结构,化学和磁性。我们明确地建立了1 $T$ $_2$薄片在室温以上是铁磁性的,具有面内易磁化轴,低磁化率,并且我们确认了它们的拉曼光谱特征是两个模式,$E_{2\text{g}}$(103.5 cm $^{-1}$)和$A_{1\text{g}}$(136.5 cm $^{-1}$)。我们还证明,热退火导致相变的单斜Cr $_5$ Te $_8$,并在较小程度上,三角形的Cr $_5$ Te $_8$。与1 $T$ $_2$形成鲜明对比的是,这些化合物都没有高于室温的居里温度,并且它们都具有垂直磁各向异性.我们的研究结果调和了文献中明显相互矛盾的报道,并为相位工程磁性能提供了机会。
Alloy engineering of Magnetic phases in two-dimensional Chromium Trihalides
Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo(圣保罗大学物理研究所);Department of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, National University of Córdoba(科尔多瓦国立大学理论与计算化学系);Department of Materials Engineering, University of São Paulo(圣保罗大学材料工程系)
Anomalous Hall signatures of nonsymmorphic nodal lines in doped chromium chalcospinel CuCr$_2$Se$_4$
拓扑材料中的一种新兴物质相是节线半金属,在$k$空间中的费米能级处(或接近费米能级)具有受保护的一维无隙线。当节线的$k$色散较弱时,由几乎平坦的节线产生的范霍夫奇点可能倾向于由诸如自旋-轨道耦合或磁性的附加扰动引入的不稳定性。本文采用第一性原理电子结构方法研究了Cr基铁磁硫尖晶石化合物CuCr $_2$ Se $_4$(CCS),揭示了其无耗散反常霍尔电导的真正起源,这一点以前没有得到很好的理解。我们发现,CCS主机节点线保护的非对称对称性,位于附近的费米能级,这样的节点线是起源的异常霍尔签名的存在下,电子掺杂的先前观察到的独特行为。自旋轨道耦合导致的节线分裂产生了较大的Berry曲率,导致了霍尔电导率的显著反常响应。当通过化学取代或门控进行电子掺杂或通过外部磁场旋转磁化时,发生反常霍尔行为的急剧变化,这使得CCS成为低能自旋电子学应用的有希望的化合物。
Visualization of Defect Electronic States in Layered Semiconductor CrSBr
University of Ottawa(渥太华大学);Radboud University(拉德堡德大学);Argonne National Laboratory(阿贡国家实验室);University of Chemistry and Technology Prague(布拉格化工大学);Bielefeld University(比勒费尔德大学);Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory(阿贡国家实验室纳米材料中心);University of Illinois(伊利诺伊大学)
研究利用扫描隧道显微镜/光谱探索块状 CrSBr 中两个突出缺陷的结构和电子特征,通过与模拟图像比较,推断常见缺陷为 b 轴对齐的双硫空位,推进了对 CrSBr 本征缺陷塑造电子结构作用的理解。
From ferromagnetic semiconductor to anti-ferromagnetic metal in epitaxial Cr$_x$Te$_y$ monolayers
University of St Andrews(圣安德鲁斯大学);STFC Central Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell(STFC中央激光设施,哈韦尔研究综合体);Diamond Light Source(钻石光源);Universität Bonn(波恩大学)