Tailored topotactic chemistry unlocks heterostructures of magnetic intercalation compounds

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 and D. Kwabena Bediako ()
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Samra Husremović: University of California
Oscar Gonzalez: University of California
Berit H. Goodge: University of California
Lilia S. Xie: University of California
Zhizhi Kong: University of California
Wanlin Zhang: University of California
Sae Hee Ryu: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Stephanie M. Ribet: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Shannon S. Fender: University of California
Karen C. Bustillo: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Chengyu Song: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jim Ciston: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Takashi Taniguchi: National Institute for Materials Science
Kenji Watanabe: National Institute for Materials Science
Colin Ophus: Stanford University
Chris Jozwiak: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Aaron Bostwick: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Eli Rotenberg: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
D. Kwabena Bediako: University of California

Nature Communications, 2025, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2025
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