TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ramadan, Fatima Zahra
AU  - José dos Santos, Flaviano
AU  - Drissi, Lalla Btissam
AU  - Lounis, Samir
TI  - Complex magnetism of the two-dimensional antiferromagnetic Ge 2 F: from a Néel spin-texture to a potential antiferromagnetic skyrmion
JO  - RSC Advances
VL  - 11
IS  - 15
SN  - 2046-2069
CY  - London
PB  - RSC Publishing
M1  - FZJ-2021-02776
SP  - 8654 - 8663
PY  - 2021
AB  - Based on density functional theory combined with low-energy models, we explore the magnetic properties of a hybrid atomic-thick two-dimensional (2D) material made of germanene doped with fluorine atoms in a half-fluorinated configuration (Ge2F). The Fluorine atoms are highly electronegative, which induces magnetism and breaks inversion symmetry, triggering thereby a finite and strong Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction (DMI). The magnetic exchange interactions are of antiferromagnetic nature among the first, second and third neighbors, which leads to magnetic frustration. The Néel state is found to be the most stable state, with magnetic moments lying in the surface plane. This results from the out-of-plane component of the DMI vector, which seems to induce an effective in-plane magnetic anisotropy. Upon application of a magnetic field, spin-spirals and antiferromagnetic skyrmions can be stabilized. We conjecture that this can be realized via magnetic exchange fields induced by a magnetic substrate. To complete our characterization, we computed the spin-wave excitations and the resulting spectra, which could be probed via electron energy loss spectroscopy, magneto-Raman spectroscopy or scanning tunneling spectroscopy.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000623512700027
DO  - DOI:10.1039/D0RA09678D
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/893704
ER  -