Abstract
Transition metal (TM) trichlorides, with or electrons, are materials at the forefront of recent studies about the interplay of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and strong Coulomb interactions. Within our first-principles calculations (DFT SOC) we study the effects of graphene on the electronic and magnetic properties of the monolayers (MLs) of and . Despite the spatially inhomogeneous -type doping induced by graphene, we show that the occupancy of Ru- bands of MLs of can be tuned through external electric fields and allows the control of (i) metal-insulator transitions and (ii) the magnetic easy-axis and anisotropy energies. Our findings point toward the tuning of electronic and magnetic properties of TM trichloride MLs by using graphene and external electronic fields.
1 More- Received 11 March 2022
- Revised 10 August 2022
- Accepted 26 September 2022
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.155118
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