Colossal Anomalous Hall Effect in Ferromagnetic van der Waals CrTe<sub>2</sub>
Meng Huang, Shanshan Wang, Zhaohao Wang, Ping Liu, Junxiang Xiang, Chao Feng, Xiangqi Wang, Zengming Zhang, Zhenchao Wen, Hongjun Xu, Guoqiang Yu, Yalin Lu, Weisheng Zhao, Shengyuan A. Yang, Dazhi Hou, Bin Xiang
Abstract
van der Waals crystals exhibit excellent material performance when exfoliated to few-atomic-layer thickness. In contrast, the van der Waals thin films more than 10 nm thick are believed to show bulk properties, in which outstanding material performance is rarely found. Here we report the largest anomalous Hall conductivity observed so far in a 170 nm van der Waals ferromagnetic 1 T -CrTe 2 flake, which reaches 67,000 Ω –1 cm –1 . Such a colossal anomalous Hall conductivity in 1 T -CrTe 2 is dominated by the extrinsic skew scattering process rather than the intrinsic Berry phase effect, as evidenced by the linear relation between the anomalous Hall conductivity and the longitudinal conductivity. Defying the dilemma of mutually exclusive large anomalous Hall angle and high electric conductivity for most ferromagnets, 1 T -CrTe 2 achieves both in a thin film sample. Considering the shared physics of the anomalous Hall effect and the spin Hall effect, our finding offers a guideline for searching large spin Hall materials of high conductivity which may overcome the bottleneck of overheating in spintronics devices.