Magnetic two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials show promising magnetic properties, which can be utilized to build spintronic devices with improved performance and new functionalities. However, most vdW magnets have Curie temperatures below 300 K. With molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) [1], we recently synthesized 1T-phase single-crystal CrTe2 thin films [2], which show ferromagnetism and strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy at room temperature. We have also studied the magnetic domain evolutions and the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in these samples at different temperatures and magnetic fields. As shown in Fig. 1, MFM has revealed clear magnetic stripe domains with out-of-plane polarization in the 16 ML CrTe2 film at room temperature. The magnetic stripe domains still exist upon applying an out-of-plane magnetic field, but the width becomes narrower at +1.2 kOe and wider at -1.2 kOe, respectively. We have patterned the samples into Hall bars and measured electron transport properties at different temperatures. Both the 8 ML and 16 ML CrTe2 films show AHE up to room temperature. However, the AHE changes sign between 100 K and 150 K. This indicates intriguing magnetic domain evolution at lower temperatures. Further work has been carried out toward a deeper understanding of the magnetization in CrTe2. Our study has highlighted CrTe2 as a unique platform for studying vdW magnetism and opened a new avenue for developing large-scale 2D magnet-based spintronics devices.

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Fig.1: MFM images showing stripe domains for the 16 ML CrTe2 at H = 0 (a), +1.2 kOe (b) and -1.2 kOe (c), respectively.

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Fig.2: a. Anomalous Hall resistance vs. H at different temperatures for 8 ML CrTe2. b, c. Dependence of anomalous hall resistance (RAHE) (b) and coercivity (c) vs. temperature for 8 ML and 16 ML CrTe2.

Magnetization evolution in room-temperature van der Waals magnet CrTe2

**Session chairs:** Yu-hang Li, University of California, Riverside and Lambert Alff, TU Darmstadt


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