| AVS 64th International Symposium & Exhibition | |
| Magnetic Interfaces and Nanostructures Division | Monday Sessions |
| Session MI+BI+EM+SA-MoA |
| Session: | Role of Chirality in Spin Transport and Magnetism |
| Presenter: | Zheng Gai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Authors: | S. Tang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Central South University, China J. Yi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory R. Fishman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory S. Okamoto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Q. Zou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory D.G. Mandrus, University of Tennessee Z. Gai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
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Cr1/3NbS2 is an emergent quasi-2D material that has recently been attracting wide attentions. Cr1/3NbS2 has both chiral helimagnetic behavior and broken inversion symmetry of Cr atoms, the two necessary conditions for creating Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction in skyrmion. Bulk studies show that a nonlinear periodic magnetic state called a soliton lattice exists in the material. By applying microexfoliation techniques, we successfully prepared thin layers of Cr1/3NbS2 with various thickness from single crystal. When the thickness of Cr1/3NbS2 layer falls into the range around the pitch of its helimagnetic state, kinks of field dependent magnetization start to evolve. The new phase is studied experimentally and theoretically. This research was conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility.