Controlling magnetic exchange and anisotropy by nonmagnetic ligand substitution in layered MPX_{3} (M=Ni, Mn; X=S, Se)

Autor: Rabindra Basnet, Kamila M. Kotur, Milosz Rybak, Cory Stephenson, Samuel Bishop, Carmine Autieri, Magdalena Birowska, Jin Hu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Physical Review Research, Vol 4, Iss 2, p 023256 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2643-1564
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.023256
Popis: Recent discoveries in two-dimensional magnetism have intensified the investigation of van der Waals magnetic materials and further improved our ability to tune their magnetic properties. Tunable magnetism has been widely studied in antiferromagnetic metal thiophosphates MPX_{3}. Substitution of metal ions M has been adopted as an important technique to engineer the magnetism in MPX_{3}. In this work, we have studied the previously unexplored chalcogen X substitutions in MPX_{3} (M=Mn/Ni; X=S/Se). We synthesized the single crystals of MnPS_{3−x}Se_{x} (0≤x≤3) and NiPS_{3−x}Se_{x} (0≤x≤1.3) and investigated the systematic evolution of the magnetism with varying x. Our study reveals the effective tuning of magnetic interactions and anisotropies in both MnPS_{3} and NiPS_{3} upon Se substitution. Such efficient engineering of the magnetism provides a suitable platform to understand the low-dimensional magnetism and develop future magnetic devices.
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