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 …

Recent progress in utilizing ultrafast light-matter interaction to control the macroscopic
properties of quantum materials is reviewed. Particular emphasis is placed on photoinduced …

The discovery of an ever-increasing family of atomic layered magnetic materials, together
with the already established vast catalogue of strong spin–orbit coupling and topological …

Topological insulators (TIs) provide intriguing prospects for the future of spintronics due to
their large spin–orbit coupling and dissipationless, counter‐propagating conduction …

Materials in which quantum mechanical effects lead to novel properties on the macroscopic
scale are of interest both fundamentally and for applications. For such quantum materials …

The focused ion beam (FIB) is a powerful tool for fabrication, modification, and
characterization of materials down to the nanoscale. Starting with the gallium FIB, which was …

Crystalline solids typically show robust long-range structural ordering, vital for their
remarkable electronic properties and use in functional electronics, albeit with limited …

More people, more cities; the energy demand increases in consequence and much of that
will rely on next-generation smart materials. Zn-ferrites (ZnFe2O4) are nonconventional …

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in the 2 H structural phase have
been recently classified as higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs), protected by C 3 …

Recent discoveries of exotic physical phenomena, such as unconventional
superconductivity in magic‐angle twisted bilayer graphene, dissipationless Dirac fermions in …