Intrinsic, two-dimensional (2D) ferromagnetic semiconductors are an important class of materials for spin-charge conversion applications. Cr2Ge2Te6 retains long-range magnetic order in bilayer at cryogenic temperatures and shows complex magnetic interactions with considerable magnetic anisotropy. Here, we performed a series of structural, magnetic, X-ray scattering, electronic, thermal transport and first-principles calculation studies which reveal that localized electronic charge carriers in Cr2Ge2Te6 are dressed by surrounding lattice and are involved in polaronic transport via hopping that is sensitive on details of magnetocrystalline anisotropy. This opens possibility for manipulation of charge transport in Cr2Ge2Te6 - based devices by electron-phonon- and spin-orbit coupling-based tailoring of polaron properties.
@article{arxiv.2203.00817,
title = {Polaronic Conductivity in Cr$_2$Ge$_2$Te$_6$ Single Crystals},
author = {Yu Liu and Myung-Geun Han and Yongbin Lee and Michael O. Ogunbunmi and Qianheng Du and Christie Nelson and Zhixiang Hu and Eli Stavitski and David Graf and Klaus Attenkofer and Svilen Bobev and Liqin Ke and Yimei Zhu and C. Petrovic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.00817},
year = {2022}
}