DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adk1415 ISSN: 2375-2548

Band-driven switching of magnetism in a van der Waals magnetic semimetal

Hideki Matsuoka, Shun Kajihara, Takuya Nomoto, Yue Wang, Motoaki Hirayama, Ryotaro Arita, Yoshihiro Iwasa, Masaki Nakano
  • Multidisciplinary

Magnetic semimetals form an attractive class of materials because of the nontrivial contributions of itinerant electrons to magnetism. Because of their relatively low–carrier-density nature, a doping level of those materials could be largely tuned by a gating technique. Here, we demonstrate gate-tunable ferromagnetism in an emergent van der Waals magnetic semimetal Cr 3 Te 4 based on an ion-gating technique. Upon doping electrons into the system, the Curie temperature ( T C ) sharply increases, approaching near to room temperature, and then decreases to some extent. This non-monotonous variation of T C accompanies the switching of the magnetic anisotropy, synchronously followed by the sign changes of the ordinary and anomalous Hall effects. Those results clearly elucidate that the magnetism in Cr 3 Te 4 should be governed by its semimetallic band nature.

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