Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Magnetic domains and domain wall pinning in atomically thin CrBr3 revealed by nanoscale imaging

  • Qi-Chao Sun,
  • Tiancheng Song,
  • Eric Anderson,
  • Andreas Brunner,
  • Johannes Förster,
  • Tetyana Shalomayeva,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Joachim Gräfe,
  • Rainer Stöhr,
  • Xiaodong Xu,
  • Jörg Wrachtrup

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22239-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Van der Waals (vdW) magnets have allowed researchers to explore the two dimensional limit of magnetisation; however experimental challenges have hindered analysis of magnetic domains. Here, using an NV centre based probe, the authors analyse the nature of magnetic domains in the vdW magnet, CrBr3.