Magnetic properties of MoS2: Existence of ferromagnetism

Abstract

We report on the magnetic properties of MoS2 measured from room temperature down to 10 K and magnetic fields up to 5 T. We find that single crystals of MoS2 display ferromagnetism superimposed onto large temperature-dependent diamagnetism and have observed that ferromagnetism persists from 10 K up to room temperature. We attribute the existence of ferromagnetism partly to the presence of zigzag edges in the magnetic ground state at the grain boundaries. Since the magnetic measurements are relatively insensitive to the interlayer coupling, these results are expected to be valid in the single layer limit.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Sep 17, 2012
Source ID
10.1063/1.4753797

Entities

People

  • Arthur F. Hebard
  • Bill R. Appleton
  • Junqiao Wu
  • Sefaattin Tongay
  • Sima S. Varnoosfaderani

Organizations

  • National Science Foundation
  • Office of Naval Research
  • University of California
  • University of Florida

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Fields of Study

  • Physics

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  • Materials Science and Engineering.