TY - JOUR
AU - Caciuc, Vasile
AU - Atodiresei, Nicolae
AU - Blügel, Stefan
TI - Magnetic properties of transition metal dichalcogenides-Fe/Ir(111) interfaces from first principles
JO - Physical review materials
VL - 2
IS - 8
SN - 2475-9953
CY - College Park, MD
PB - APS
M1 - FZJ-2018-07525
SP - 084001
PY - 2018
AB - In our density functional theory study we systematically explored how the interaction between magnetic and nonmagnetic transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers and a magnetic Fe/Ir(111) electrode reciprocally modifies their electronic and magnetic properties. From an electronic point of view, all investigated semiconductor TMDs become metallic upon adsorption on the Fe/Ir(111) substrate related to a rather strong TMD-Fe/Ir(111) hybridization. On the other hand, from a magnetic point of view, the TMD-surface hybridization leads to a spin-imbalanced electronic structure of such hybrid systems with system-specific features. Additionally, the calculated exchange coupling constants for the Fe surface atoms evidenced a stronger magnetic interaction upon TMD adsorption as compared to the case of the clean surface. This observation indicates the presence of a magnetic hardening of the exchange coupling constants similarly to the case of molecular systems on magnetic surfaces, which emphasizes the generality of this adsorbate-induced effect on magnetic substrates.
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000440830800001
DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.084001
UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/858680
ER -