Tailoring Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in a transition metal dichalcogenide by dual-intercalation

TL;DR

This study demonstrates the enhancement and electrical control of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in a transition metal dichalcogenide through dual-intercalation and protonic gating, enabling tunable chiral spin textures for spintronic applications.

Contribution

It introduces a novel dual-intercalation method combined with gate-controlled proton intercalation to tune DMI in TMDs, revealing new pathways for spin texture control.

Findings

Giant topological Hall resistivity of 1.4 uohm.cm achieved.

Gate-controlled proton intercalation significantly tunes DMI.

Large anomalous Hall effect linked to spin-orbit interactions.

Abstract

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is vital to form various chiral spin textures, novel behaviors of magnons and permits their potential applications in energy-efficient spintronic devices. Here, we realize a sizable bulk DMI in a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) 2H-TaS2 by intercalating Fe atoms, which form the chiral supercells with broken spatial inversion symmetry and also act as the source of magnetic orderings. Using a newly developed protonic gate technology, gate-controlled protons intercalation could further change the carrier density and intensely tune DMI via the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida mechanism. The resultant giant topological Hall resistivity of 1.4 uohm.cm at -5.2V (about 460% of the zero-bias value) is larger than most of the known magnetic materials. Theoretical analysis indicates that such a large topological Hall effect originates from the two-dimensional Bloch-type chiral spin textures stabilized by DMI, while the large anomalous Hall effect comes from the gapped Dirac nodal lines by spin-orbit interaction. Dual-intercalation in 2HTaS2 provides a model system to reveal the nature of DMI in the large family of TMDs and a promising way of gate tuning of DMI, which further enables an electrical control of the chiral spin textures and related electromagnetic phenomena.