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Giant tunneling magnetoresistance in spin-filter van der Waals heterostructures Open
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Functional metal–organic frameworks as effective sensors of gases and volatile compounds Open
This review summarizes the recent advances of metal organic framework (MOF) based sensing of gases and volatile compounds.
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Ising-Type Magnetic Ordering in Atomically Thin FePS<sub>3</sub> Open
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Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Open
Carbon encapsulated iron-cementite Fe–Fe3C nanoparticles with ‘‘core–shell’’ architecture, were synthesized by a single-step solid-state pyrolysis of iron phthalocyanine at the temperature 900 ◦C with pyrolysis time of 180 min. The morphol…
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Molecular magnetism: from chemical design to spin control in molecules, materials and devices Open
The field of molecular magnetism is rapidly evolving towards the use of magnetic molecules and molecule- based magnetic materials in physics- driven and nanotechnology- driven fields, in particular molecular spintronics, quantum technologi…
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Probing magnetism in 2D van der Waals crystalline insulators via electron tunneling Open
An intrinsic magnetic tunnel junction An electrical current running through two stacked magnetic layers is larger if their magnetizations point in the same direction than if they point in opposite directions. These so-called magnetic tunne…
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Interface-induced phenomena in magnetism Open
This article reviews static and dynamic interfacial effects in magnetism, focusing on interfacially-driven magnetic effects and phenomena associated with spin-orbit coupling and intrinsic symmetry breaking at interfaces. It provides a hist…
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Emerging Research Landscape of Altermagnetism Open
Magnetism is one of the largest, most fundamental, and technologically most relevant fields of condensed-matter physics. Traditionally, two basic magnetic phases have been distinguished ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. The spin polar…
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Room Temperature Intrinsic Ferromagnetism in Epitaxial Manganese Selenide Films in the Monolayer Limit Open
Monolayer van der Waals (vdW) magnets provide an exciting opportunity for exploring two-dimensional (2D) magnetism for scientific and technological advances, but the intrinsic ferromagnetism has only been observed at low temperatures. Here…
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Atomic-scale control of graphene magnetism by using hydrogen atoms Open
Hydrogen atom makes graphene magnetic Graphene has many extraordinary mechanical and electronic properties, but it's not magnetic. To make it so, the simplest strategy is to modify its electronic structure to create unpaired electrons. Res…
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Beyond Conventional Ferromagnetism and Antiferromagnetism: A Phase with Nonrelativistic Spin and Crystal Rotation Symmetry Open
The search for novel magnetic quantum phases, phenomena and functional\nmaterials has been guided by relativistic magnetic-symmetry groups in coupled\nspin and real space from the dawn of the field in 1950s to the modern era of\ntopologica…
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Chiral-induced spin selectivity enables a room-temperature spin light-emitting diode Open
Spin injection sans magnetism Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that emit circularly polarized light (spin-LEDs) have potential applications in in three-dimensional displays, bioencoding, and tomography. The requisite spin polarization of the c…
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Stacking-Dependent Magnetism in Bilayer CrI<sub>3</sub> Open
We report the connection between the stacking order and magnetic properties of bilayer CrI3 using first-principles calculations. We show that the stacking order defines the magnetic ground state. By changing the interlayer stacking order, …
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The rise of 3-d single-ion magnets in molecular magnetism: towards materials from molecules? Open
Single-molecule magnets (SMMs) that contain one spin centre (so-called single-ion magnets) theoretically represent the smallest possible unit for spin-based electronic devices. These molecules hold the promise to revolutionize computing an…
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Very large tunneling magnetoresistance in layered magnetic semiconductor CrI3 Open
Magnetic layered van der Waals crystals are an emerging class of materials giving access to new physical phenomena, as illustrated by the recent observation of 2D ferromagnetism in Cr2Ge2Te6 and CrI3. Of particular interest in semiconducto…
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Models and materials for generalized Kitaev magnetism Open
The exactly solvable Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice has recently received enormous attention linked to the hope of achieving novel spin-liquid states with fractionalized Majorana-like excitations. In this review, we analyze the mech…
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<i>Colloquium</i>: Herbertsmithite and the search for the quantum spin liquid Open
Quantum spin liquids form a novel class of matter where, despite the\nexistence of strong exchange interactions, spins do not order down to the\nlowest measured temperature. Typically, these occur in lattices that act to\nfrustrate the app…
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Crystal and Magnetic Structures in Layered, Transition Metal Dihalides and Trihalides Open
Materials composed of two dimensional layers bonded to one another through weak van der Waals interactions often exhibit strongly anisotropic behaviors and can be cleaved into very thin specimens and sometimes into monolayer crystals. Inte…
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Tunable Magnetism and Half-Metallicity in Hole-Doped Monolayer GaSe Open
We find, through first-principles calculations, that hole doping induces a ferromagnetic phase transition in monolayer GaSe. Upon increasing hole density, the average spin magnetic moment per carrier increases and reaches a plateau near 1.…
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Interface-driven topological Hall effect in SrRuO <sub>3</sub> -SrIrO <sub>3</sub> bilayer Open
Electronic transport measurements reveal the formation of swirling spin textures, skyrmions, at high-quality oxide interface.
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Paramagnetic NMR in solution and the solid state Open
The field of paramagnetic NMR has expanded considerably in recent years, both in solution and the solid state. This review addresses both the theoretical description of paramagnetic NMR, and the way in which it is currently practised. We p…
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Photovoltaics with Ferroelectrics: Current Status and Beyond Open
Ferroelectrics carry a switchable spontaneous electric polarization. This polarization is usually coupled to strain, making ferroelectrics good piezoelectrics. When coupled to magnetism, they become so‐called multiferroic systems, a field …
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Tutorial: a beginner’s guide to interpreting magnetic susceptibility data with the Curie-Weiss law Open
Magnetic susceptibility measurements are often the first characterization tool that researchers turn to when beginning to assess the magnetic nature of a newly discovered material. Breakthroughs in instrumentation have made the collection …
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Intercalated architecture of MA2Z4 family layered van der Waals materials with emerging topological, magnetic and superconducting properties Open
The search for new two-dimensional monolayers with diverse electronic properties has attracted growing interest in recent years. Here, we present an approach to construct MA 2 Z 4 monolayers with a septuple-atomic-layer structure, that is,…
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Advent of 2D Rhenium Disulfide (ReS<sub>2</sub>): Fundamentals to Applications Open
Rhenium disulfide (ReS 2 ) is a two‐dimensional (2D) group VII transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD). It is attributed with structural and vibrational anisotropy, layer‐independent electrical and optical properties, and metal‐free magnetis…
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Recent progress on 2D magnets: Fundamental mechanism, structural design and modification Open
The two-dimensional (2D) magnet, a long-standing missing member in the family of 2D functional materials, is promising for next-generation information technology. The recent experimental discovery of 2D magnetic ordering in CrI3, Cr2Ge2Te6…
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Metal Thio‐ and Selenophosphates as Multifunctional van der Waals Layered Materials Open
Since the discovery of Dirac physics in graphene, research in 2D materials has exploded with the aim of finding new materials and harnessing their unique and tunable electronic and optical properties. The follow‐on work on 2D dielectrics a…
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Perspective: Ultrafast magnetism and THz spintronics Open
This year the discovery of femtosecond demagnetization by laser pulses is 20 years old. For the first time, this milestone work by Bigot and coworkers gave insight directly into the time scales of microscopic interactions that connect the …
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Magnetic Order and Symmetry in the 2D Semiconductor CrSBr Open
The advent of two-dimensional (2D) magnets offers unprecedented control over electrons and spins. A key factor in determining exchange coupling and magnetic order is symmetry. Here, we apply second harmonic generation (SHG) to probe a 2D m…
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Atomically Thin CrCl<sub>3</sub>: An In-Plane Layered Antiferromagnetic Insulator Open
The recent discovery of magnetism in atomically thin layers of van der Waals (vdW) crystals has created new opportunities for exploring magnetic phenomena in the two-dimensional (2D) limit. In most 2D magnets studied to date, the c-axis is…