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Two-dimensional materials have been gaining great attention as they displayed a broad series of electronic properties that ranging from superconductivity to topology. Among them, those which possess magnetism are most desirable, enabling us…
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Half-metallicity (HM) offers great potential for engineering spintronic applications, yet only few magnetic materials present metallicity in just one spin channel. In addition, most HM systems become magnetically disordered at temperatures…
Monolayer 1T-VSe2 has been reported as a room-temperature ferromagnet. In this work, by using first-principles calculations, we unveil that the ferromagnetism in monolayer 1T-VSe2 is originated from its intrinsic huge Stoner instability…
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Magnetism in doped transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers and van der Waals interfaced materials have motivated the search for sustainable magnetic states at the nanoscale with the prospect of building devices for spintronics…