Jo Junhyeon, Mañas-Valero Samuel, Coronado Eugenio, Casanova Fèlix, Gobbi Marco, Hueso Luis E
CIC nanoGUNE BRTA, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain.
Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMol) Universitat de València, Catedrático José Beltrán 2, Paterna 46980, Spain.
Nano Lett. 2024 Apr 17;24(15):4471-4477. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c00348. Epub 2024 Apr 8.
van der Waals magnets are emerging as a promising material platform for electric field control of magnetism, offering a pathway toward the elimination of external magnetic fields from spintronic devices. A further step is the integration of such magnets with electrical gating components that would enable nonvolatile control of magnetic states. However, this approach remains unexplored for antiferromagnets, despite their growing significance in spintronics. Here, we demonstrate nonvolatile electric field control of magnetoelectric characteristics in van der Waals antiferromagnet CrSBr. We integrate a CrSBr channel in a flash-memory architecture featuring charge trapping graphene multilayers. The electrical gate operation triggers a nonvolatile 200% change in the antiferromagnetic state of CrSBr resistance by manipulating electron accumulation/depletion. Moreover, the nonvolatile gate modulates the metamagnetic transition field of CrSBr and the magnitude of magnetoresistance. Our findings highlight the potential of manipulating magnetic properties of antiferromagnetic semiconductors in a nonvolatile way.
范德华磁体正成为一种很有前景的用于磁电场控制的材料平台,为消除自旋电子器件中的外部磁场提供了一条途径。进一步的步骤是将此类磁体与电门控组件集成,这将实现对磁态的非易失性控制。然而,尽管反铁磁体在自旋电子学中的重要性日益增加,但这种方法在反铁磁体方面仍未得到探索。在此,我们展示了范德华反铁磁体CrSBr中磁电特性的非易失性电场控制。我们将CrSBr通道集成到具有电荷俘获石墨烯多层的闪存架构中。电门操作通过操纵电子积累/耗尽,触发CrSBr电阻的反铁磁状态发生200%的非易失性变化。此外,非易失性门控调节CrSBr的变磁转变场和磁阻大小。我们的研究结果突出了以非易失性方式操纵反铁磁半导体磁性能的潜力。