Anomalous thickness dependence of Curie temperature in air-stable 
two-dimensional ferromagnetic 1T-CrTe2 grown by chemical vapor deposition

Meng, L.; Zhou, Z.; Xu, M.; Yang, S.; Si, K.; Liu, L.; Wang, X.; Jiang, H.; Li, B.; Qin, P.; Zhang, P.; Wang, J.; Liu, Z.; Tang, P.; Ye, Y.; Zhou, W.; Bao, L.; Gao, H.-J.; Gong, Y.

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21072-z

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Anomalous thickness dependence of Curie temperature in air-stable two-dimensional ferromagnetic 1T-CrTe₂ grown by chemical vapor deposition

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Tang, P.
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University;
Theory Group, Theory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society;
Center for Free-Electron Laser Science;

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Meng, L., Zhou, Z., Xu, M., Yang, S., Si, K., Liu, L., et al. (2021). Anomalous thickness dependence of Curie temperature in air-stable two-dimensional ferromagnetic 1T-CrTe₂ grown by chemical vapor deposition. Nature Communications, 12(1): 809. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21072-z.

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Abstract

The discovery of ferromagnetic two-dimensional van der Waals materials has opened up opportunities to explore intriguing physics and to develop innovative spintronic devices. However, controllable synthesis of these 2D ferromagnets and enhancing their stability under ambient conditions remain challenging. Here, we report chemical vapor deposition growth of air-stable 2D metallic 1T-CrTe₂ ultrathin crystals with controlled thickness. Their long-range ferromagnetic ordering is confirmed by a robust anomalous Hall effect, which has seldom been observed in other layered 2D materials grown by chemical vapor deposition. With reducing the thickness of 1T-CrTe₂ from tens of nanometers to several nanometers, the easy axis changes from in-plane to out-of-plane. Monotonic increase of Curie temperature with the thickness decreasing from ~130.0 to ~7.6 nm is observed. Theoretical calculations indicate that the weakening of the Coulomb screening in the two-dimensional limit plays a crucial role in the change of magnetic properties.