Novel ways to tune magnetism in metal thiophosphates MPX<sub>3</sub>

ORAL

Abstract

Recent discoveries in two-dimensional magnetism have intensively motivated the search of new van der Waals magnetic materials and further engineer their magnetic properties for potential use in spintronics applications. Tunable magnetism has been widely studied in antiferromagnetic metal thiophosphates MPX3. Substitution of metal ions M has been adopted as a common technique to manipulate their magnetism. Here, we present other approaches to tune magnetism in MPX3: chalcogen X substitution and lithium intercalation. Our studies reveal the effective control of magnetic exchanges and anisotropies upon chalcogen substitution. In addition, we found the signature of ferrimagnetism up on Li intercalation in van der Waals-type MPX3, which provides alternative route to achieve various magnetic phases in MPX3 that are not accessible through metal substitution.

*We acknowledge the support from US Department of Energy under grant DE-SC0019467 and DE-SC0022006.

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Presenters

  • Rabindra Basnet

    • University of Arkansas

Authors

  • Rabindra Basnet

    • University of Arkansas

  • Kamila K Kotur

    • University of Warsaw

  • Milosz Rybak

    • Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

  • Cory Stephenson

    • University of Arkansas

  • Samuel Bishop

    • University of Arkansas

  • Carmine Autieri

    • International Research Centre MagTop, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotnikow 32/46, PL-02668 Warsaw, Poland
    • International Research Centre MagTop, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotników 32/46, PL-02668 Warsaw, Poland
    • Polish Academy of Sciences
    • International Research Centre MagTop

  • Magdalena Birowska

    • University of Warsaw

  • Jin Hu

    • University of Arkansas