Spin-Phonon Coupling in Iron-Doped Ultrathin Bismuth Halide Perovskite Derivatives.

Liu, Yifeng; Ai, Qing; Ye, Gaihua; Ye, Zhipeng; Hrubý, Jakub; Wang, Fan; Orlando, Tomas; Wang, Yuguo et al. · ACS Nano · 2024

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Spin in semiconductors facilitates magnetically controlled optoelectronic and spintronic devices. In metal halide perovskites (MHPs), doping magnetic ions is proven to be a simple and efficient approach to introducing a spin magnetic momentum. In this work, we present a facile metal ion doping protocol through the vapor-phase metal halide insertion reaction to the chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-grown ultrathin Cs<sub>3</sub>BiBr<sub>6</sub> perovskites. The Fe-doped bismuth halide (Fe:CBBr) perovskites demonstrate that the iron spins are successfully incorporated into the lattice, as revealed by the spin-phonon coupling below the critical temperature <i>T</i><sub>c</sub> around 50 K observed through temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopy. Furthermore, the phonons exhibit significant softening under an applied magnetic field, possibly originating from magnetostriction and spin exchange interaction. The spin-phonon coupling in Fe:CBBr potentially provides an efficient way to tune the spin and lattice parameters for halide perovskite-based spintronics.