• 文献标题:   Robust Magnetoelectric Effect in the Decorated Graphene/In2Se3 Heterostructure
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SHANG J, TANG X, GU YT, KRASHENINNIKOV AV, PICOZZI S, CHEN CF, KOU LZ
  • 作者关键词:   heterostructure, magnetoelectric effect, ferroelectriccontrolled magnetism, dorbital shift, firstprinciples calculation
  • 出版物名称:   ACS APPLIED MATERIALS INTERFACES
  • ISSN:   1944-8244 EI 1944-8252
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  • 被引频次:   10
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsami.0c19768 EA JAN 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

The magnetoelectric effect is a fundamental physical phenomenon that synergizes electric and magnetic degrees of freedom to generate distinct material responses like electrically tuned magnetism, which serves as a key foundation of the emerging field of spintronics. Here, we show by first-principles studies that ferroelectric (FE) polarization of an In2Se3 monolayer can modulate the magnetism of an adjacent transition-metal (TM)-decorated graphene layer via a ferroelectrically induced electronic transition. The TM nonbonding d-orbital shifts downward and hybridizes with carbon-p states near the Fermi level, suppressing the magnetic moment, under one FE polarization, but on reversed FE polarization this TM d-orbital moves upward, restoring the original magnetic moment. This finding of robust magnetoelectric effect in the TM-decorated graphene/In2Se3 heterostructure offers powerful insights and a promising avenue for experimental exploration of ferroelectrically controlled magnetism in two-dimensional (2D) materials.