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Hauptverfasser: Lee, Chih-Yu, Yamazaki, Takahiro, Yan, Peng, Kim, Ryan, Kotsugi, Masato, Rodriguez, Efrain E., Bennett, Joseph W., Takeuchi, Ichiro
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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author Lee, Chih-Yu
Yamazaki, Takahiro
Yan, Peng
Kim, Ryan
Kotsugi, Masato
Rodriguez, Efrain E.
Bennett, Joseph W.
Takeuchi, Ichiro
author_facet Lee, Chih-Yu
Yamazaki, Takahiro
Yan, Peng
Kim, Ryan
Kotsugi, Masato
Rodriguez, Efrain E.
Bennett, Joseph W.
Takeuchi, Ichiro
contents Recently, magnetic 2-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials have garnered tremendous attention. The vdW ferromagnet Fe5Ge1Te2 has a Curie temperature Tc of ~ 270 K, which is tailorable by tuning the stoichiometry and the Fe deficiency to reach room temperature. To explore the expanded compositional space, we implemented combinatorial synthesis and high-throughput characterization to investigate the structural phase distribution and ferromagnetism of a Fe-Ge-Te thin film library. The library was prepared by magnetron co-sputtering followed by annealing in vacuum or in an inert environment. Composition and structural phase distribution of the 177 pads in the library were characterized using high-throughput wavelength dispersive spectroscopy (WDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and two-point probe resistance measurements. We leverage unsupervised machine learning to cluster the XRD dataset into groups of compositions with similar structural phases, and further study the ferromagnetic properties via SQUID magnetometry and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) across different clusters. The results are compared against magnetization and structural models calculated using DFT. Our results demonstrate that the hexagonal crystal structure is a critical prerequisite for ferromagnetism in this system, and that unexplored materials adopting this structure can be efficiently identified as possible ferromagnetic materials using our high-throughput, ML-assisted framework. This workflow based on the combinatorial strategy allows us to rapidly capture the composition-structure-magnetic property map across a broad compositional landscape of novel magnetic materials.
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spellingShingle Combinatorial Survey of Structural Phase Distribution and Magnetism in Fe-Ge-Te Composition-spread Thin Film Libraries
Lee, Chih-Yu
Yamazaki, Takahiro
Yan, Peng
Kim, Ryan
Kotsugi, Masato
Rodriguez, Efrain E.
Bennett, Joseph W.
Takeuchi, Ichiro
Materials Science
Recently, magnetic 2-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials have garnered tremendous attention. The vdW ferromagnet Fe5Ge1Te2 has a Curie temperature Tc of ~ 270 K, which is tailorable by tuning the stoichiometry and the Fe deficiency to reach room temperature. To explore the expanded compositional space, we implemented combinatorial synthesis and high-throughput characterization to investigate the structural phase distribution and ferromagnetism of a Fe-Ge-Te thin film library. The library was prepared by magnetron co-sputtering followed by annealing in vacuum or in an inert environment. Composition and structural phase distribution of the 177 pads in the library were characterized using high-throughput wavelength dispersive spectroscopy (WDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and two-point probe resistance measurements. We leverage unsupervised machine learning to cluster the XRD dataset into groups of compositions with similar structural phases, and further study the ferromagnetic properties via SQUID magnetometry and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) across different clusters. The results are compared against magnetization and structural models calculated using DFT. Our results demonstrate that the hexagonal crystal structure is a critical prerequisite for ferromagnetism in this system, and that unexplored materials adopting this structure can be efficiently identified as possible ferromagnetic materials using our high-throughput, ML-assisted framework. This workflow based on the combinatorial strategy allows us to rapidly capture the composition-structure-magnetic property map across a broad compositional landscape of novel magnetic materials.
title Combinatorial Survey of Structural Phase Distribution and Magnetism in Fe-Ge-Te Composition-spread Thin Film Libraries
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18037