Apr 8, 2025
2:15pm - 2:30pm
Summit, Level 4, Room 442
Sang-Eon Lee1,2,Yue Li3,Yeonkyu Lee4,Kice Brown5,Gregory McCandless5,Alex Moon1,6,Lingrui Mei1,6,Jaeyoung Kim2,Julia Chan5,Jeehoon Kim4,Charudatta Phatak3,Vadym Kulichenko1,Luis Balicas1,6
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory1,Hanyang University2,Argonne National Laboratory3,Pohang University of Science and Technology4,Baylor University5,Florida State University6
Sang-Eon Lee1,2,Yue Li3,Yeonkyu Lee4,Kice Brown5,Gregory McCandless5,Alex Moon1,6,Lingrui Mei1,6,Jaeyoung Kim2,Julia Chan5,Jeehoon Kim4,Charudatta Phatak3,Vadym Kulichenko1,Luis Balicas1,6
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory1,Hanyang University2,Argonne National Laboratory3,Pohang University of Science and Technology4,Baylor University5,Florida State University6
The recently discovered layered ferromagnet Fe
3GaTe
2 is attracting significant attention due to its high Curie temperature, low dimensionality, and the presence of topological spin textures , and a large anomalous Hall effect even above room temperature, which make Fe
3GaTe
2 a good candidate for applicationsfuture devices utilizing their topological spin textures. in spintronics. To fully realize its potential, an exact characterization of its magnetic nature and discovering the mechanism for its topological spin texture is essential. Here, a comprehensive understanding of the magnetic response and its correlating to the electronic transport properties of Fe
3GaTe
2 is essential. Therefore, we conducted a comprehensive study of Fe
3GaTe
2 via magnetization, electrical transport, and magnetic imaging techniques, i.e., Lorentz transmission electron microscopy (LTEM) and magnetic force microscopy (MFM). wWe found that Fe
3GaTe
2 has a metastable ferromagnetic (FM) state with a stable ferrimagnetic (FiM) state, representing complex magnetic manifestation also correlated with the magnetic anisotropy and magnetic dipole-dipole interaction. Interestingly, displays a first-order transition from ferromagnetism (FM) to ferrimagnetism (FiM) at relatively low fields. Interestingly, the topological Hall effect and the magnetic bubble structures shown in the MFM image display their predominance displays a maximum at the magnetic phase boundary, implying competing magnetic interaction has a crucial role in the topological spin texture. between both phases, suggesting that mixed magnetic states play a relevant role in stabilizing topological spin textures. This observation is supported by MFM imaging which reveals magnetic bubbles when the topological Hall effect maximizes. Furthermore, we found the coincidence between magnetic thermal hysteresis caused by competing FM and FiM phases and the thermal hysteresis of observed in the skyrmion density measured through LTEM images,. and thermal hysteresis in the magnetizationThese results suggest that utilizing the distinct magnetic phases can be a useful skyrmion control factor in Fe
3GaTe
2. Conclusively, provides evidence for a correlation between the transition among both magnetic states and the emergence of topological spin textures. wWe extracted a magnetic phase diagram for Fe
3GaTe
2, exposing a hitherto unreported correlation between topological spin textures and the coexistence of FM with FiM domains.distinct magnetic interactions.