Fundamental properties of 2D magnetic materials

Characterize the electronic structure, optical properties, magnetization dynamics, and magnon spectra of two-dimensional van der Waals magnetic materials to resolve outstanding unknowns in their microscopic behavior.

Background

The field of 2D magnets is young and fast-moving, and many essential microscopic properties remain insufficiently understood, limiting predictive modeling and device design.

Resolving these unknowns requires advances in synthesis, high-quality characterization, and theory, including many-body and multiscale approaches tailored to strongly correlated and topological 2D magnets.

References

Several fundamental aspects of 2D magnetic materials are still unknown or poorly understood, such as their often-complicated electronic structure, optical properties, and magnetization dynamics, and their magnon spectrum.

— Roadmap on Quantum Magnetic Materials  (2412.18020 - Grubišić-Čabo et al., 2024) in Section 1, Abstract/Introduction

Despite these advances, the potential for CrOCl to modulate the electronic, and/or even magnetic properties of 2D-FMS, such as CGT, remains an open and critical question.

— A substrate booster for P-type 2D ferromagnetic semiconductor  (2609.11015 - Wang et al., 10 Sep 2026) in Section “Results and Discussion,” subsection “Fabrications and characterizations of Cr₂Ge₂Te₆ FETs”