Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Distinct magneto-Raman signatures of spin-flip phase transitions in CrI3

  • Amber McCreary,
  • Thuc T. Mai,
  • Franz G. Utermohlen,
  • Jeffrey R. Simpson,
  • Kevin F. Garrity,
  • Xiaozhou Feng,
  • Dmitry Shcherbakov,
  • Yanglin Zhu,
  • Jin Hu,
  • Daniel Weber,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Joshua E. Goldberger,
  • Zhiqiang Mao,
  • Chun Ning Lau,
  • Yuanming Lu,
  • Nandini Trivedi,
  • Rolando Valdés Aguilar,
  • Angela R. Hight Walker

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17320-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Thin samples CrI3 exhibit a phase transition under an applied magnetic field from layered antiferromagnetism to ferromagnetism. Here the authors observe an associated abrupt change in the magneto-Raman spectra, illustrating the sensitivity of Raman spectra to magnetic ordering.