Néel-type skyrmion in WTe2/Fe3GeTe2 van der Waals heterostructure

oleh: Yingying Wu, Senfu Zhang, Junwei Zhang, Wei Wang, Yang Lin Zhu, Jin Hu, Gen Yin, Kin Wong, Chi Fang, Caihua Wan, Xiufeng Han, Qiming Shao, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Jiadong Zang, Zhiqiang Mao, Xixiang Zhang, Kang L. Wang

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2020-07-01

Deskripsi

Strong magnetic interfacial coupling in van der Waals heterostructures provides a new platform for discovering novel physics and effects. Here, the authors report the formation of skyrmion lattice in the WTe2/Fe3GeTe2 van der Waals heterostructure and a Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction with a large energy density of 1.0 mJm−2.