Wide field imaging of van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2 by spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride

Mengqi Huang; Jingcheng Zhou; Di Chen; Hanyi Lu; Nathan J. McLaughlin; Senlei Li; Mohammed Alghamdi; Dziga Djugba; Jing Shi; Hailong Wang; Chunhui Rita Du

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33016-2

Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Wide field imaging of van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2 by spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride

Mengqi Huang,
Jingcheng Zhou,
Di Chen,
Hanyi Lu,
Nathan J. McLaughlin,
Senlei Li,
Mohammed Alghamdi,
Dziga Djugba,
Jing Shi,
Hailong Wang,
Chunhui Rita Du

Affiliations

Mengqi Huang: Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Jingcheng Zhou: Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Di Chen: Department of Physics, University of Houston
Hanyi Lu: Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Nathan J. McLaughlin: Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Senlei Li: Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Mohammed Alghamdi: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California
Dziga Djugba: Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Jing Shi: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California
Hailong Wang: Center for Memory and Recording Research, University of California, San Diego
Chunhui Rita Du: Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33016-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has been used extensively to encapsulate other van der Waals materials, protecting them from environmental degradation, and allowing integration into more complex heterostructures. Here, the authors make use of boron vacancy spin defects in h-BN using them to image the magnetic properties of a Fe3GeTe2 flake.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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