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Effect of nickel substitution on magnetism in the layered van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3 GeTe2
Ames Laboratory Accepted Manuscripts
  • Gil Drachuck, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Zaher Salman, Paul Scherrer Institut
  • Morgan W. Masters, Iowa State University
  • Valentin Taufour, Iowa State University and University of California, Davis
  • Tej Lamichhane, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Qisheng Lin, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Warren E. Straszheim, Ames Laboratory
  • Sergey L. Bud’ko, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Paul C. Canfield, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
Publication Date
10-24-2018
Department
Ames Laboratory; Chemistry; Physics and Astronomy
OSTI ID+
1481861
Report Number
IS-J 9806
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.98.144434
Journal Title
Physical Review B
Abstract

We have grown a series of nickel-substituted single crystals of the layered ferromagnet (FM) Fe3GeTe2. The large single-crystalline samples of (Fe1−xNix)3GeTe2 with x=0–0.84 were characterized with single-crystal x-ray diffraction, magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistance, and muon spin spectroscopy. We find Fe can be continuously substituted with Ni with only a minor structural variation. In addition, FM order is suppressed from TC=212K for x=0 down to TC=50Kfor x=0.3, which is accompanied by a strong suppression of saturated and effective moments, and Curie-Weiss temperature. Beyond x=0.3, the FM order is continuously smeared into a FM cluster-glass phase, with a nearly full magnetic volume fraction. We attribute the observed change in the nature of magnetic order to the intrinsically disordered structure of Fe3GeTe2 and subsequent dilution effects from the Ni substitution.

DOE Contract Number(s)
AC02-07CH111358; GBMF4411
Language
en
Publisher
Iowa State University Digital Repository, Ames IA (United States)
Citation Information
Gil Drachuck, Zaher Salman, Morgan W. Masters, Valentin Taufour, et al.. "Effect of nickel substitution on magnetism in the layered van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3 GeTe2" Vol. 98 Iss. 14 (2018) p. 144434
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/qisheng-lin/46/