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Published on: November 21, 2019
Observation of Magnetic Proximity Effect Using Resonant Optical Spectroscopy of an Electrically Tunable
Livio Ciorciaro1, Martin Kroner1, Kenji Watanabe2
1Institut für Quantenelektronik, ETH Zürich, Auguste-Piccard-Hof 1, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
van der Waals heterostructures combining two-dimensional magnetic and semiconducting layers constitute a promising platform for interfacing magnetism, electronics, and optics. Here, we use resonant optical reflection spectroscopy to observe the magnetic proximity effect in a gate-tunable MoSe_{2}/CrBr_{3} heterostructure. The high quality of the interface leads to a giant zero-field splitting of the K and K^{'} valley excitons in MoSe_{2}, equivalent to an external magnetic field of 12 T, with a weak but distinct electric field dependence that hints at potential for electrical control of magnetization. The magnetic proximity effect allows us to use resonant optical spectroscopy to fully characterize the CrBr_{3} magnet, determining the easy-axis coercive field, the magnetic anisotropy energy, and critical exponents associated with spin susceptibility and magnetization.
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