Samra Husremović, Oscar Gonzalez, Berit H Goodge, Lilia S Xie, Zhizhi Kong, Wanlin Zhang, Sae Hee Ryu, Stephanie M Ribet, Shannon S Fender, Karen C Bustillo, Chengyu Song, Jim Ciston, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Colin Ophus, Chris Jozwiak, Aaron Bostwick, Eli Rotenberg, D Kwabena Bediako
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Abstract
The construction of thin film heterostructures has been a widely successful archetype for fabricating materials with emergent physical properties. This strategy is of particular importance for the design of multilayer magnetic architectures in which direct interfacial spin-spin interactions between magnetic phases in dissimilar layers lead to emergent and controllable magnetic behavior. However, crystallographic incommensurability and atomic-scale interfacial disorder can severely limit the types of materials amenable to this strategy, as well as the performance of these systems. Here, we demonstrate a method for synthesizing heterostructures comprising magnetic intercalation compounds of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), through directed topotactic reaction of the TMD with a metal oxide. The mechanism of the intercalation reaction enables thermally initiated intercalation of the TMD from lithographically patterned oxide films, giving access to a family of multi-component magnetic architectures through the combination of deterministic van der Waals assembly and directed intercalation chemistry.
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