@article{Duan2022, 
author = {Hengli Duan and Guinan Li and Hao Tan and Chao Wang and Qian Li and Chuanchuan Liu and Yuewei Yin and Xiaoguang Li and Zeming Qi and Wensheng Yan},
title = {Sulfur-vacancy-tunable interlayer magnetic coupling in centimeter- scale MoS2 bilayer},
year = {2022},
journal = {Nano Research},
volume = {15},
number = {2},
pages = {881-888},
keywords = {interlayer coupling, interlayer exchange interaction, 2D magnetic materials, S-vacancy, large-area growth},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.1007/s12274-021-3569-7},
doi = {10.1007/s12274-021-3569-7},
abstract = {Endowing bilayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with tunable magnetism is significant to investigate the coupling of multiple electron degrees of freedom (DOFs). However, effectively inducing and tuning the magnetic interaction of bilayer TMDs are still challenges. Herein, we report a strategy to tune the interlayer exchange interaction of centimeter-scale MoS2 bilayer with substitutional doping of Co ion, by introducing sulfur vacancy (VS) to modulate the interlayer electronic coupling. This strategy could transform the interlayer exchange interaction from antiferromagnetism (AFM) to ferromagnetism (FM), as revealed by the magnetic measurements. Experimental characterizations and theoretical calculations indicate that the enhanced magnetization is mainly because the hybridization of Co 3d band and VS-induced impurity band alters the forms of interlayer orbital hybridizations between the partial Co atoms in upper and lower layers, and also enhances the intralayer FM. Our work paves the way for tuning the interlayer exchange interaction with defects and could be extended to other two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials.}
}