Emerging oxidized and defective phases in low-dimensional CrCl₃.

ABSTRACT: Two-dimensional (2D) magnets such as chromium trihalides CrX₃ (X = I, Br, Cl) represent a frontier for spintronics applications and, in particular, CrCl₃ has attracted research interest due its relative stability under ambient conditions without rapid degradation, as opposed to CrI₃. Herein, mechanically exfoliated CrCl₃ flakes are characterized at the atomic scale and the electronic structures of pristine, oxidized, and defective monolayer CrCl₃ phases are investigated employing density functional theory (DFT) calculations, scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS), core level X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS), and valence band XPS and ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy (UPS). As revealed by atomically resolved transmission elect

SUBMITTER: Mastrippolito D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9419748 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature