Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Very large tunneling magnetoresistance in layered magnetic semiconductor CrI3

  • Zhe Wang,
  • Ignacio Gutiérrez-Lezama,
  • Nicolas Ubrig,
  • Martin Kroner,
  • Marco Gibertini,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Ataç Imamoğlu,
  • Enrico Giannini,
  • Alberto F. Morpurgo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04953-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Layered van der Waals compounds offer opportunities to visit new physical phenomena in two dimensional materials. Here the authors report large tunneling magnetoresistance through exfoliated CrI3 crystals and attribute its evolution to the multiple transitions to different magnetic states.