Author(s): Lin, HL (Lin, Hailong); Yan, FG (Yan, Faguang); Hu, C (Hu, Ce); Zheng, YH (Zheng, Yuanhui); Sheng, Y (Sheng, Yu); Zhu, WK (Zhu, Wenkai); Wang, ZA (Wang, Ziao); Zheng, HZ (Zheng, Houzhi); Wang, KY (Wang, Kaiyou)

Source: NANOSCALE DOI: 10.1039/d1nr07730a Early Access Date: JAN 2022

Abstract: Among the numerous two-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) magnetic materials, Fe3GeTe2 (FGT), due to its outstanding properties such as metallicity, high Curie temperature and strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, has quickly emerged as a candidate with the most potential for the fabrication of all-vdW spintronic devices. Here, we fabricated a simple vertical homojunction based on two few-layer exfoliated FGT flakes. Under a certain range of external magnetic fields, the magnetization reversal can be achieved by applying a negative or positive pulse current, which can reduce the coercivity through the spin orbit torque of FGT itself in addition to the Joule heat. Moreover, the asymmetrical switching current is caused by the spin transfer torque in the homojunction. As the temperature increases, the magnetization reversal can be observed at a smaller external magnetic field. Our demonstrations of the current-assisted magnetization reversal under a magnetic field in all-vdW structures may provide support for the potential application of vdW magnetism.

Accession Number: WOS:000747893800001

PubMed ID: 35088803

ISSN: 2040-3364

eISSN: 2040-3372

Full Text: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/NR/D1NR07730A