Identifying Band Structure Changes of FePS across the Antiferromagnetic Phase Transition.

Magnetic 2D materials enable interesting tuning options of magnetism. As an example, the van der Waals material FePS, a zig-zag-type intralayer antiferromagnet, exhibits very strong magnetoelastic coupling due to the different bond lengths along different ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic coupling directions enabling elastic tuning of magnetic properties. The likely cause of the length change is the intricate competition between direct exchange of the Fe atoms and superexchange via the S and P atoms.

Electronic Band Structure Changes across the Antiferromagnetic Phase Transition of Exfoliated MnPS Flakes Probed by μ-ARPES.

Exfoliated magnetic 2D materials enable versatile tuning of magnetization, e.g., by gating or providing proximity-induced exchange interaction.