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Nonvolatile Electric Control of Antiferromagnet CrSBr

  • Junhyeon Jo*
  • , Samuel Mañas-Valero
  • , Eugenio Coronado
  • , Fèlix Casanova
  • , Marco Gobbi*
  • , Luis E. Hueso*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • CIC nanoGUNE
  • University of Valencia
  • Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science
  • Centro de Física de Materiales (CFM-MPC) Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4471-4477
Number of pages7
JournalNano Letters
Volume24
Issue number15
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024.04.17

Keywords

  • 2D antiferromagnetic semiconductor
  • CrSBr
  • magnetic anisotropy
  • magnetoresistance
  • nonvolatile gate

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