van der Waals ferromagnet

Room-temperature zero-field skyrmions

A polar metal Fe3-xGaTe2 with broken inversion symmetry hosts Néel-type skyrmion lattice stable up to 330 K at zero field, outperforming all known vdW magnets.

Zhang, Chenhui · Jiang, Ze · Wa, He · Zhang, Junwei · Yang, Dongsheng · Liu, Yakun · Peng, Yong · Yang, Hongxin · Yang, Hyunsoo

Nature Communications 2024

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Skyrmion lattice persists up to 330 K at zero magnetic field

Atomic-resolution STEM reveals off-centered FeII atoms break inversion symmetry

DMI primarily stems from Te sublayers via Fert-Lévy mechanism