Epitaxial growth and magneto-transport properties of kagome metal FeGe thin films
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| author | Song, Xiaoyue Chen, Yanshen Deng, Yongcheng Sun, Tongao Wang, Fei Wei, Guodong Liu, Xionghua Wang, Kaiyou |
| author_facet | Song, Xiaoyue Chen, Yanshen Deng, Yongcheng Sun, Tongao Wang, Fei Wei, Guodong Liu, Xionghua Wang, Kaiyou |
| contents | Antiferromagnetic kagome metal FeGe has attracted tremendous attention in condensed matter physics due to the charge density wave (CDW) being well below its magnetic transition temperature. Up to now, numerous works on kagome FeGe have been based on single crystal bulk, but its thin film form has still not been reported. Here, we achieved epitaxial growth of FeGe thin films on Al2O3 substrates using molecular beam epitaxy. Structural characterization with x-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy, and high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy reveals single phase with flat surface of kagome FeGe thin films. Moreover, a Néel temperature of 397 K and a rapid variation of Hall coefficient and magnetoresistance around 100 K, which might be related to the CDW, were revealed via transport measurements. The high quality kagome FeGe thin films are expected to provide a versatile platform to study the mechanism of CDW and explore the application of FeGe in antiferromagnetic spintronics. |
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| spellingShingle | Epitaxial growth and magneto-transport properties of kagome metal FeGe thin films Song, Xiaoyue Chen, Yanshen Deng, Yongcheng Sun, Tongao Wang, Fei Wei, Guodong Liu, Xionghua Wang, Kaiyou Materials Science Antiferromagnetic kagome metal FeGe has attracted tremendous attention in condensed matter physics due to the charge density wave (CDW) being well below its magnetic transition temperature. Up to now, numerous works on kagome FeGe have been based on single crystal bulk, but its thin film form has still not been reported. Here, we achieved epitaxial growth of FeGe thin films on Al2O3 substrates using molecular beam epitaxy. Structural characterization with x-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy, and high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy reveals single phase with flat surface of kagome FeGe thin films. Moreover, a Néel temperature of 397 K and a rapid variation of Hall coefficient and magnetoresistance around 100 K, which might be related to the CDW, were revealed via transport measurements. The high quality kagome FeGe thin films are expected to provide a versatile platform to study the mechanism of CDW and explore the application of FeGe in antiferromagnetic spintronics. |
| title | Epitaxial growth and magneto-transport properties of kagome metal FeGe thin films |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06344 |