Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Probing magnetism in atomically thin semiconducting PtSe2

  • Ahmet Avsar,
  • Cheol-Yeon Cheon,
  • Michele Pizzochero,
  • Mukesh Tripathi,
  • Alberto Ciarrocchi,
  • Oleg V. Yazyev,
  • Andras Kis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18521-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Beneficiary defects could be utilized to introduce magnetism into materials that are not intrinsically magnetic. Here, the authors demonstrate long range magnetic order in the air-stable, defective Platinum Diselenide in the ultimate limit of thickness by using proximitized graphene as a probe.