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Among two-dimensional magnetic materials, CrSBr has attracted considerable attention owing to its coexistence of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic ordering, which depends sensitively on crystallographic orientation. An additional…
Stacking van der Waals magnets holds promise for creating new hybrid materials with properties that do not exist in bulk materials. Here we investigate orthogonally twisted stacks of the van der Waals antiferromagnet CrSBr, aiming to…
The recent discovery of two-dimensional (2D) magnets offers unique opportunities for the experimental exploration of low-dimensional magnetism4 and the magnetic proximity effects, and for the development of novel magnetoelectric,…
The optical properties of the layered magnet CrSBr are dominated by intralayer excitons: the antiferromagnetic order between the layers makes layer-to-layer charge hopping, and therefore interlayer excitons, spin-forbidden. An external…
Monolayer CrSBr is a recently discovered semiconducting spin-3/2 ferromagnet with a Curie temperature around 146 K. Unlike many other known two-dimensional (2D) magnets, CrSBr has an orthorhombic lattice, giving rise, for instance, to…
Symmetry constraints determine which physical responses are allowed in a given system. Magnetization induced by strain fields, such as in piezomagnetic and flexomagnetic effects, has typically been considered in materials that break…
One of the exciting features of two-dimensional (2D) materials is their electronic and optical tunability through strain engineering. Previously, we found a class of 2D ferroelectric Rashba semiconductors PbX (X = S, Se, Te) with tunable…
Magnetic semiconductors are a powerful platform for understanding, utilizing and tuning the interplay between magnetic order and electronic transport. Compared to bulk crystals, two-dimensional magnetic semiconductors have greater…
2D magnetic semiconductors, which intrinsically couple a rich landscape of magnetic orders with tightly bound electron-hole pairs (excitons), present an exciting platform to investigate the interplay between optical and magnetic phenomena…
We demonstrate how shape-induced strain can be used to control antiferromagnetic order in NiO/Pt thin films. For rectangular elements patterned along the easy and hard magnetocrystalline anisotropy axes of our film, we observe different…
The van der Waals magnetic semiconductor CrSBr combines multistable magnetic order with strong light--matter coupling, enabling optical access to a rich and reconfigurable layered magnetic domain structure. A purely optical,…
Strain engineering allows the physical properties of materials and devices to be widely tailored, as paradigmatically demonstrated by strained transistors and semiconductor lasers employed in consumer electronics. For this reason, its…
Recent research has revealed remarkable properties of the two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals layered crystal CrSBr, which is both a semiconductor and an A-type antiferromagnet. Here we show the role of strong magnetoelastic coupling in the…
Van der Waals magnetic materials are an ideal platform to study low-dimensional magnetism. Opposed to other members of this family, the magnetic semiconductor CrSBr is highly resistant to degradation in air, which, besides its exceptional…
Stripe domains are studied in perpendicular magnetic anisotropy films nanostructured with a periodic thickness modulation that induces the lateral modulation of both stripe periods and inplane magnetization. The resulting system is the 2D…
Strong spin fluctuations are expected near the thermodynamic critical point of a continuous magnetic phase transition. Such critical spin fluctuations are highly correlated and in principle can occur at any time- and length-scales; they…
Curved magnetic architectures are key enablers of the prospective magnetic devices with respect to size, functionality and speed. By exploring geometry-governed magnetic interactions, curvilinear magnetism offers a number of intriguing…
The sensitive dependence of electronic and thermoelectric properties of MoS$_2$ on the applied strain opens up a variety of applications in the emerging area of straintronics. Using first principles based density functional theory…
Competition between exchange interactions and magnetocrystalline anisotropy may bring new magnetic states that are of great current interest. An applied hydrostatic pressure can further be used to tune their balance. In this work we…
The recent discovery of ferromagnetic single-layer CrI3 creates ample opportunities for studying fundamental properties of atomically-thin magnets. By using first-principles calculations and model analysis, we show that a lateral strain…