One-unit-cell thick semiconductors with room-temperature magnetism

Nanowerk  November 15, 2022
Researchers in China have developed a confined-van der Waals epitaxial approach to synthesizing air-stable semiconducting cobalt ferrite nanosheets with thickness down to one unit cell using a facile chemical vapor deposition process. They demonstrated hard magnetic behavior and magnetic domain evolution by means of vibrating sample magnetometry, magnetic force microscopy and magneto-optical Kerr effect measurements, which showed high Curie temperature above 390 K and strong dimensionality effect. According to the researchers their work provides possibilities for numerous novel applications in computing, sensing and information storage…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE 

Magnetic properties of CFO nanosheet samples. Nature Communications volume 13, Article number: 5241 (2022)

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