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Zhongxuan Wang1, Yong Hu2, Zhenyao Fang3

  • 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742. United States.

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Researchers developed chiral 2D multiferroics using molecular intercalation. This strategy enhances magnetic and ferroelectric properties, enabling light-controlled spintronic devices at room temperature.

Keywords:
Chiral 2D multiferroicsCircularly polarized lightMagnetoelectric couplingMolecular intercalation

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Area of Science:

  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Materials Science
  • Nanotechnology

Background:

  • Chiral materials and multiferroics offer unique symmetry-controlled functionalities.
  • Integrating these properties into 2D systems is challenging due to temperature limitations and simultaneous property sustainment.
  • Existing 2D systems struggle to maintain chirality, ferroelectricity, and ferromagnetism concurrently at practical temperatures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To engineer novel chiral 2D multiferroics by overcoming integration challenges.
  • To develop a general strategy for creating light-responsive 2D multiferroic heterostructures.
  • To enable optically tunable magnetoelectric and spintronic devices.

Main Methods:

  • Introduced a chiral molecular intercalation strategy.
  • Inserted enantiomeric molecules into layered ferroelectric CuInP2S6 and ferromagnetic Fe3GaTe2.
  • Analyzed the effects of molecular insertion on interfacial electrostatics, charge distribution, and interlayer spacing.

    • Main Results:

    • Achieved enhanced ferroic order, including a 5-fold increase in magnetic anisotropy energy (0.35 to 1.6 meV/Fe) and strengthened ferroelectric polarization.
    • Constructed chiral CIPS-FGT heterostructures exhibiting robust room-temperature magnetoelectric coupling (approx. 4.8% magnetization modulation).
    • Demonstrated helicity-dependent control of ferroic states using circularly polarized light, resulting in a 54.4% resistance modulation.

    Conclusions:

    • Molecular intercalation is a viable general strategy for engineering advanced 2D multiferroics.
    • The developed chiral 2D multiferroics exhibit significant room-temperature magnetoelectric coupling.
    • These materials enable light-responsive spintronic devices with tunable properties.