Figure 3

(Color online) Change in MAE of CrCl\(_{3}\) bilayer with respect to the applied strain, within GGA and GGA+U approximations. A tensile strain equal to +2\(\%\) induces a phase transition to an out-of-plane easy axis in this bilayer.

(Color online) Change in MAE of CrCl\(_{3}\) bilayer with respect to the applied strain, within GGA and GGA+U approximations. A tensile strain equal to +2\(\%\) induces a phase transition to an out-of-plane easy axis in this bilayer.