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Theoretical study on magnetocaloric effect and its electric-field regulation in CrI3/metal heterostructure

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The extraordinary properties of a heterostructure by stacking atom-thick van der Waals (vdW) magnets have been extensively studied. However, the magnetocaloric effect (MCE) of heterostructures that are based on monolayer magnets remains to be explored. Herein, we deliberate MCE of vdW heterostructure composed of a monolayer CrI3 and metal atomic layers (Ag, Hf, Au, and Pb). It is revealed that heterostructure engineering by introducing metal substrate can improve MCE of CrI3, particularly boosting relative cooling power to 471.72 µJ m−2 and adiabatic temperature change to 2.1 K at 5 T for CrI3/Hf. This improved MCE is ascribed to the enhancement of magnetic moment and intralayer exchange coupling in CrI3 due to the CrI3/metal heterointerface induced charge transfer. Electric field is further found to tune MCE of CrI3 in heterostructures and could shift the peak temperature by around 10 K in CrI3/Hf, thus manipulating the working temperature window of MCE. These theoretical results could enrich the research on low-dimensional magnetocaloric materials.

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    Weiwei He, Ziming Tang, Qihua Gong, Min Yi & Wanlin Guo

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12272173, 12302134, and 11902150), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. NS2023054), the National Overseas Youth Talents Program, the Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control for Aerospace Structures (Grant Nos. MCMS-I-0419G01, and MCMS-I-0421K01), the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, and the Interdisciplinary Innovation Fund for Doctoral Students of Nan**g University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Grant No. KXKCXJJ202306). This work was partially supported by the High Performance Computing Platform of Nan**g University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Simulations were also performed on Hefei advanced computing center.

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He, W., Tang, Z., Gong, Q. et al. Theoretical study on magnetocaloric effect and its electric-field regulation in CrI3/metal heterostructure. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 67, 226811 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-023-2238-2

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