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Gate Tunable Labyrinth Domain Structures in a van der Waals Itinerant Ferromagnet Cr$_{{7}}$Te$_{{8}}$ |
| Kui Meng1†, Zeya Li1†, Yicheng Shen1†, Xiangyu Bi1, Junhao Rao1, Yuting Qian1, Zhansheng Gao2, Peng Chen1, Caiyu Qiu1, Feng Qin1*, Jinxiong Wu3, Feng Luo3, Junwei Huang1*, and Hongtao Yuan1* |
1National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210000, China
2Center for the Physics of Low-Dimensional Materials, Henan Joint International Research Laboratory of New Energy Materials and Devices, School of Physics and Electronics, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
3Tianjin Key Lab for Rare Earth Materials and Applications, Center for Rare Earth and Inorganic Functional Materials, Smart Sensor Interdisciplinary Science Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
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Kui Meng, Zeya Li, Yicheng Shen et al 2024 Chin. Phys. Lett. 41 097501 |
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Abstract Manipulating magnetic domain structure plays a key role in advanced spintronics devices. Theoretical rationale is that the labyrinthine domain structure, normally appearing in ferromagnetic thin films with strong magnetic anisotropy, shows a great potential to increase data storage density for designing magnetic nonvolatile memory and logic devices. However, an electrical control of labyrinthine domain structure remains elusive. Here, we demonstrate the gate-driven evolution of labyrinthine domain structures in an itinerant ferromagnet Cr$_{{7}}$Te$_{{8}}$. By combining electric transport measurements and micromagnetic finite difference simulations, we find that the hysteresis loop of anomalous Hall effect in Cr$_{{7}}$Te$_{{8}}$ samples shows distinct features corresponding to the generation of labyrinthine domain structures. The labyrinthine domain structures are found to be electrically tunable via Li-electrolyte gating, and such gate-driven evolution in Cr$_{{7}}$Te$_{{8}}$ originates from the reduction of the magnetic anisotropic energy with gating, revealed by our micromagnetic simulations. Our results on the gate control of anomalous Hall effect in an itinerant magnetic material provide an opportunity to understand the formation and evolution of labyrinthine domain structures, paving a new route towards electric-field driven spintronics.
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Received: 11 June 2024
Published: 13 September 2024
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