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Gap opening in a wide-enough doping range, whilst keeping high conductance outside this gapped state, has remained a grand challenge in graphene since decades. Here, we show a unique heterostructure of Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) atop few-layered CrOCl, which enables a surface state in CrOCl under vertical electric fields, and it promotes electron-electron(e-e) interactions in BLG via Coulomb long ranged coupling. Consequently, at the charge neutral, a crossover from single particle insulating behavior to an unconventional correlated insulator is seen, below a critical temperature. The over1 GΩ insulating ground state exists in a widely accessible gate range, and can be switched into a metallic state with an on/off ratio up to 107, by applying an in-plane electric field, heating, or by gating. A logic inverter using such correlated insulator is demonstrated, despite that it works still at low temperature. Our findings of the correlated insulating phase in CrOCl/BLG heterosystem paves the way for future engineering of exotic quantum electronic states in the paradigm of interfacial charge coupling.
excitonic insulator, CrOCl, band gap, van der Waals material, correlated insulator
excitonic insulator, CrOCl, band gap, van der Waals material, correlated insulator
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