The large variety of 2D materials and their co-integration in van der Waals heterostructures
enable innovative device engineering. In addition, their atomically thin nature promotes the …

Symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials plays a significant role in their macroscopic
electrical, optical, magnetic and topological properties, including, but not limited to, spin …

Materials research has driven the development of modern nano-electronic devices. In
particular, research in magnetic thin films has revolutionized the development of spintronic …

The scaling of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology is
increasingly challenging, but demand for low-power data storage and processing continues …

Abstract Recently, two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials have attracted extensive
interest thanks to their potential application as spintronic devices. Albeit bulk magnetic …

Monolayer valley semiconductors, such as tungsten diselenide (WSe2), possess valley
pseudospin degrees of freedom that are optically addressable but degenerate in energy …

Magnetic proximity effects are integral to manipulating spintronic,, superconducting,,
excitonic and topological phenomena,–in heterostructures. These effects are highly …

Advances in scaling down heterostructures and having an improved interface quality
together with atomically thin two-dimensional materials suggest a novel approach to …

Defects are ubiquitous in solids and often introduce new properties that are absent in
pristine materials. One of the opportunities offered by these crystal imperfections is an …

Proximity effects in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals heterostructures offer controllable
ways to tailor the electronic band structure of adjacent materials. Proximity exchange in …