ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

2D vs. 3D ordering in CrCl3, a Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a honeycomb lattice

Abstract: Van der Waals solids containing two-dimensional lattices of magnetic moments with only weak interlayer coupling have attracted significant scientific interest due to their applications in creating designer heterostructures. In particular, the Cr trihalides (CrX3 with X=F, Cl, Br, I) belong to this class of material and their ferromagnetic semiconducting properties make them especially attractive in the development of low-dimensional spintronic devices. Recent studies of CrCl3 have called into question aspects of our current understanding of its magnetic properties and proposed the existence of a temperature regime with 2D intralayer magnetic order but no 3D interlayer order. We would like to investigate this intriguing proposition and probe the magnetic behaviour of CrCl3, using our knowledge from our ongoing study of the very similar alpha-RuCl3.

Principal Investigator: Dr Franz Lang
Local Contact: Dr Peter Baker
Experimenter: Dr Dharmalingan Prabhakaran
Experimenter: Professor Stephen Blundell
Experimenter: Professor Tom Lancaster
Experimenter: Dr John Wilkinson
Experimenter: Mr Chris Pasco

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1820328

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1820328

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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