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We investigate the micromechanical exfoliation and van der Waals (vdW) assembly of ferromagnetic layered dichalcogenide Fe0.25TaS2. The vdW interlayer coupling at the Fe-intercalated plane of Fe0.25TaS2 allows exfoliation of flakes. A vdW…

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Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures have opened new opportunities to develop atomically thin (opto)electronic devices with a wide range of functionalities. The recent focus on manipulating the interlayer twist angle has led to the…

Recent experiments have demonstrated efficient spin transfer across layers in the van der Waals heterostructure composed of WTe2 and Fe3GeTe2, signaling a potential breakthrough in developing all-van der Waals spin-orbit torque devices.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-24 H. L. Ning , M. Q. Dong , X. Zhang , J. S. Huang , B. Liu , Zhi-Xin Guo , Y. Dong

The utilization of two-dimensional (2D) materials in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) has shown excellent performance and rich physics. As for 2D antiferromagnets, the magnetic moments in different layers respond asynchronously and can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Xiaolin Ren , Ruizi Liu , Yiyang Zhang , Yuting Liu , Xuezhao Wu , Kun Qian , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Qiming Shao

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) van der Waals (vdW) materials provide a novel platform for synthetic AFM spintronics, in which the spin-related functionalities are derived from manipulating spin configurations between the layers. Metallic vdW…

van der Waals (vdW) magnets, an emerging family of two-dimensional (2D) materials, have received tremendous attention due to their rich fundamental physics and significant potential for cutting-edge technological applications. In contrast…

We use a van-der-Waals pickup technique to fabricate different heterostructures containing WSe$_2$(WS$_2$) and graphene. The heterostructures were structured by plasma etching, contacted by one-dimensional edge contacts and a topgate was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Tobias Völkl , Tobias Rockinger , Martin Drienovsky , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Dieter Weiss , Jonathan Eroms

The crystallographic, magnetic, and transport properties of the van der Waals bonded, layered compound CrTe3 have been investigated on single crystal and polycrystalline materials. The crystal structure contains layers made up of lozenge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-19 Michael A. McGuire , V. Ovidiu Garlea , Santosh KC , Valentino R. Cooper , Jiaqiang Yan , Huibo Cao , Brian C. Sales

Van-der-Waals (vdW) ferromagnets have enabled the development of heterostructures assembled from exfoliated monolayers with spintronics functionalities, making it important to understand and ultimately tune their magnetic properties at the…

Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) based on van der Waals (vdW) magnetic layers has been found to present excellent tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) property, which has great potential applications in field sensing, non-volatile magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 X. X. Ren , B. Liu , Xian Zhang , Ping Li , Zhi-Xin Guo

Using Density functional theory and non-equilibrium Green's function formalism, spin dependent electron transport in Fe/Mo$_x$Cr$_{1-x}$S$_2$/Fe magnetic tunnel junction is studied. Spin transport for different thicknesses (1, 3, 5, and 7…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Aloka Ranjan Sahoo , Sharat Chandra

Two-dimensional (2D) multiferroic heterostructures present a promising platform for advanced spin devices by leveraging the coexisting ferromagnetic (FM) and ferroelectric (FE) orders. Through first-principles calculations and micromagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-14 Zheng Chen , Hongliang Hu , Wenjun Zhang , Xiaoping Wu , Ping Li , Changsheng Song

Magnetic tunnel junctions with wide band gap semiconductor ZnTe barrier were fabricated. A very low barrier height and sizable magnetoresistance were observed in the Fe/ZnTe/Fe junctions at room temperature. The nonlinear I-V characteristic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 W. G. Wang , C. Ni , A. Ozbay , L. R. Shah , X. Fan , X. M. Kou , E. R. Nowak , J. Q. Xiao

The discovery of atomic monolayer magnetic materials has stimulated intense research activities in the two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials community. The field is growing rapidly and there has been a large class of 2D vdW…

Altermagnet-based heterojunctions have demonstrated magnetoresistive effects in experiments, however, a predictive theoretical model for non-ferromagnetic structures has remained elusive. In this work, we develop a tunneling-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-17 Kun Yan , Yizhi Hu , Wei-Hua Xiao , Xiaolong Zou , Xiaobin Chen , Wenhui Duan

Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals heterostructures serve as a promising platform to exploit various physical phenomena in a diverse range of novel spintronic device applications. The efficient spin injection is the prerequisite for these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-24 Chaolong Tang , Zhaowei Zhang , Shen Lai , Qinghai Tan , Wei-bo Gao

The emergence of topological magnetism in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnetic materials promoted 2D heterostructures as key building-blocks of devices for information technology based on topological concepts. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-03 Nihad Abuawwad , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Hazem Abusara , Samir Lounis

Magnetic van der Waals heterostructures provide a unique platform to study magnetism and spintronics device concepts in the two-dimensional limit. Here, we report studies of exchange bias from the van der Waals antiferromagnet CrSBr acting…

The interplay between spin reorientation and topological electronic structure in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) ferromagnets is central to understanding how magnetic anisotropy shapes charge transport. Although spin-reorientation…

Van der Waals semiconducting magnets exhibit a cornucopia of physical phenomena originating from the interplay of their semiconducting and magnetic properties. However, a comprehensive understanding of how semiconducting processes and…