Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Anomalous thickness dependence of Curie temperature in air-stable two-dimensional ferromagnetic 1T-CrTe2 grown by chemical vapor deposition

  • Lingjia Meng,
  • Zhang Zhou,
  • Mingquan Xu,
  • Shiqi Yang,
  • Kunpeng Si,
  • Lixuan Liu,
  • Xingguo Wang,
  • Huaning Jiang,
  • Bixuan Li,
  • Peixin Qin,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Jinliang Wang,
  • Zhiqi Liu,
  • Peizhe Tang,
  • Yu Ye,
  • Wu Zhou,
  • Lihong Bao,
  • Hong-Jun Gao,
  • Yongji Gong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21072-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Here, the authors report chemical vapor deposition growth of metallic 1T-CrTe2 ultrathin crystals with controlled thickness and long-range ferromagnetic ordering, and observe a monotonic increase of the Curie temperature with decreasing thickness.