• 文献标题:   Evidence for charge transfer and proximate magnetism in graphene-alpha-RuCl3 heterostructures
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHOU BY, BALGLEY J, LAMPENKELLEY P, YAN JQ, MANDRUS DG, HENRIKSEN EA
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Washington Univ
  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.100.165426
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

We report a study of electronic transport in van der Waals heterostructures composed of flakes of the antiferromagnetic Mott insulator alpha-RuCl3 placed on top of monolayer graphene Hall bars. While the zero-field transport shows a strong resemblance to that of isolated graphene, we find a consistently p-type Hall effect suggestive of multiband conduction, along with a nonmonotonic and gate-voltage-dependent excursion of the resistivity at low temperatures that is reminiscent of transport in the presence of a magnetic phase transition. We interpret these data as evidence for charge transfer from graphene to alpha-RuCl3 in an inhomogeneous device yielding both highly and lightly doped regions of graphene, while the latter shows a particular sensitivity to magnetism in the alpha-RuCl3. Thus proximity to graphene is a means to access magnetic properties of thin layers of magnetic insulators.