Abstract
Ultrathin van der Waals materials and their heterostructures offer a simple, yet powerful platform for discovering emergent phenomena and implementing device structures in the two-dimensional limit. The past few years has pushed this frontier to include magnetism. These advances have brought forth a new assortment of layered materials that intrinsically possess a wide variety of magnetic properties and are instrumental in integrating exchange and spin–orbit interactions into van der Waals heterostructures. This Review Article summarizes recent progress in exploring the intrinsic magnetism of atomically thin van der Waals materials, manipulation of their magnetism by tuning the interlayer coupling, and device structures for spin- and valleytronic applications.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1276-1289 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Nature Materials |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 12 |
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| State | Published - Dec 2020 |
Funding
The authors acknowledge D. Klein, Q. Zhang and D. Ovchinnikov for constructive feedback. The work at the University of Washington is mainly supported by the Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division (DE-SC0018171 and DE-SC0012509). M.A.M. and A.M. were supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division. Work at MIT was mainly supported by the DOE Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under award DE-SC0018935, the Center for Integrated Quantum Materials under NSF grant DMR-1231319, as well as the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s EPiQS Initiative through grant GBMF4541 to P.J.H. D.X., P.J.H. and X.X. acknowledge partial support from Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) 2D MAGIC MURI FA9550-19-1-0390.