Molybdenum disulphide, a diamagnetic layered dichalcogenide solid, is found to show magnetic ordering at room temperature when exposed to a 2 MeV proton beam. The temperature dependence of magnetization displays ferrimagnetic behavior with a Curie temperature of 895 K. A disorder mode corresponding to a zone-edge phonon and a Mo valence higher than +4, have been detected in the irradiated samples using Raman and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, respectively. The possible origins of long-range magnetic ordering in irradiated MoS2 samples are discussed.
@article{arxiv.1209.3569,
title = {Magnetism in MoS2 induced by MeV proton irradiation},
author = {S. Mathew and K. Gopinadhan and T. K. Chan and X. J. Yu and D. Zhan and L. Cao and A. Rusydi and M. B. H. Breese and S. Dhar and Z. X. Shen and T. Venkatesan and John TL Thong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.3569},
year = {2012}
}