2020
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.267205
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Light-Tunable Ferromagnetism in Atomically Thin Fe3GeTe2 Driven by Femtosecond Laser Pulse

Abstract: Recent discovery of intrinsic ferromagnetism in two-dimension (2D) van der Waals (vdW) crystals has opened up a new arena for spintronics, raising an opportunity of achieving the tunable intrinsic 2D vdW magnetism. Here, we show that the magnetization and the magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) of the few-layered Fe3GeTe2 (FGT) is strongly modulated by a femtosecond (fs) laser pulse. Upon increasing the fs laser excitation intensity, the saturation magnetization increases in an approximately linear way and the co… Show more

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“…In current control scheme 518,557,558 , one usually aims to utilize electrical current to switch magnetization via spin orbit torque. Besides electrical control, many other stimuli have been attempted to control 2D magnetism, including pressure [559][560][561][562][563] , chemical synthesis 545 , light incidence 564 , to name a few. For example, pressure can artificially change the lattice constants of vdW magnets, chemical synthesis 545 can easily modify the elemental concentration and stoichiometry, and optical incidence can cause photo-induced doping in 2D magnets 565 , all of which could lead to the effective control of magnetic properties.…”
Section: Magnetic Propertiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In current control scheme 518,557,558 , one usually aims to utilize electrical current to switch magnetization via spin orbit torque. Besides electrical control, many other stimuli have been attempted to control 2D magnetism, including pressure [559][560][561][562][563] , chemical synthesis 545 , light incidence 564 , to name a few. For example, pressure can artificially change the lattice constants of vdW magnets, chemical synthesis 545 can easily modify the elemental concentration and stoichiometry, and optical incidence can cause photo-induced doping in 2D magnets 565 , all of which could lead to the effective control of magnetic properties.…”
Section: Magnetic Propertiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Notably, charge transfer between Bi 2 Te 3 and FGT is unlikely responsible for the magnetism change we observe. The magnetism of FGT could only be manipulated under heavy electron doping, [ 33,45 ] which cannot be provided by Bi 2 Te 3 . More importantly, different from EuS, [ 46,47 ] RuCl 3 , [ 48,49 ] CrI 3 [ 50 ] which are ferromagnetic insulators, the FGT belongs to 2D ferromagnetic metal, where the high carrier density makes its density of states insensitive to the transferred charges from adjacent Bi 2 Te 3 .…”
Section: Generation and Detection Of Thz Radiation In Fgt|ti Heterost...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such a high carrier density is experimentally realizable in the 2D materials through electrostatic gating [72,73] or femtosecond laser pulse. [74] In contrast, the electron doping has a detrimental effect on the ordering as T C gradually decreases. We notice that below a critical carrier density, the magnetism remains out-of-plane and beyond which it switches to the in-plane orientation as A z changes sign.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%