• 文献标题:   Magnetic response and electronic states of well defined Graphene/Fe/Ir(111) heterostructure
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CARDOSO C, AVVISATI G, GARGIANI P, SBROSCIA M, JAGADEESH MS, MARIANI C, LEON DA, VARSANO D, FERRETTI A, BETTI MG
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   2475-9953
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  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.014405
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

We investigate a well defined heterostructure constituted by magnetic Fe layers sandwiched between graphene (Gr) and Ir(111). The challenging task to avoid Fe-C solubility and Fe-Ir intermixing has been achieved with atomic controlled Fe intercalation at moderate temperature below 500 K. Upon intercalation of a single ordered Fe layer in registry with the Ir substrate, an intermixing of the Gr bands and Fe d states breaks the symmetry of the Dirac cone, with a downshift in energy of the apex by about 3 eV, and well-localized Fe intermixed states induced in the energy region just below the Fermi level. First principles electronic structure calculations show a large spin splitting of the Fe states, resulting in a majority spin channel almost fully occupied and strongly hybridized with Gr pi states. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism on the Gr/Fe/Ir heterostructure reveals an ordered spin configuration with a ferromagnetic response of Fe layer(s), with enhanced spin and orbital configurations with respect to the bcc-Fe bulk values. The magnetization switches from a perpendicular easy magnetization axis when the Fe single layer is lattice matched with the Ir(111) surface to a parallel one when the Fe thin film is almost commensurate with graphene.