Issue 5, 2022

A multiferroic iron arsenide monolayer

Abstract

Iron arsenide (FeAs) monolayers are known as a key component for building iron-based superconductors. Here, we predict by first-principles calculations that the FeAs monolayer is a highly stable and multiferroic material with coexisting ferroelasticity and antiferromagnetism. The ferroelasticity entails a reversible elastic strain of as large as 18% and an activation barrier of 20 meV per atom, attributed to a weak hybridization between Fe d and As p orbitals. The local moments of Fe atoms are oriented out-of-plane, so that the magnetic ordering is weakly coupled to the structural polarization. Interestingly, fluorination of the FeAs monolayer can align the local moments in parallel and reorient the easy axis along the in-plane direction. As such, the fluorinated FeAs monolayer is potentially a long-sought multiferroic material that enables a strong coupling between ferroelasticity and ferromagnetism.

Graphical abstract: A multiferroic iron arsenide monolayer

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
12 noy 2021
Accepted
21 yan 2022
First published
31 yan 2022
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale Adv., 2022,4, 1324-1329

A multiferroic iron arsenide monolayer

X. Xuan, T. Yang, J. Zhou, Z. Zhang and W. Guo, Nanoscale Adv., 2022, 4, 1324 DOI: 10.1039/D1NA00805F

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