Je‐Geun Park

There has been a huge increase of interests in two-dimensional van der Waals materials over the past ten years or so with the conspicuous absence of one particular class of materials: magnetic van der Waals systems. In this Viewpoint, we point it out and illustrate how we might be able to benefit from exploring these so-far neglected materials.

Realizing a state of matter in two dimensions has repeatedly proven a novel route of discovering new physical phenomena. Van der Waals (vdW) materials have been at the center of these now extensive research activities. They offer a natural way of producing a monolayer of matter simply by mechanical exfoliation. This work demonstrates that the possible multiferroic state with coexisting antiferromagnetic and ferroelectric orders persists down to the bilayer flake of NiI2. By exploiting the optica

Magnons and phonons are fundamental quasiparticles in a solid and can be coupled together to form a hybrid quasi-particle. However, detailed experimental studies on the underlying Hamiltonian of this particle are rare for actual materials. Moreover, the anharmonicity of such magnetoelastic excitations remains largely unexplored, although it is essential for a proper understanding of their diverse thermodynamic behaviour and intrinsic zero-temperature decay. Here we show that in non-collinear ant

Abstract That one can stack van der Waals materials with atomically sharp interfaces has provided a new material platform of constructing heterostructures. The technical challenge of mechanical stacking is picking up the exfoliated atomically thin materials after mechanical exfoliation without chemical and mechanical degradation. Chemically inert hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been widely used for encapsulating and picking up vdW materials. However, due to the relatively weak adhesion of hBN,

Li(2)MnO(3) consists of a layered Mn honeycomb lattice separated by a single layer of LiO(6) octahedra along the c-axis. By using single crystal Li(2)MnO(3) samples, we have examined the physical properties and carried out both powder and single crystal neutron diffraction studies to determine that Mn moments order antiferromagnetically at T(N) = 36 K with an ordered magnetic moment of 2.3 μ(B) perpendicular to the ab plane. We have also discovered that about 35% of the full magnetic entropy is

Abstract Van der Waals (vdW) magnets are an ideal platform for tailoring 2D magnetism with immense potential for spintronics applications and are intensively investigated. However, little is known about the microscopic origin of magnetic order in these antiferromagnetic systems. X‐ray photoemission electron microscopy is used to address the electronic and magnetic properties of the vdW antiferromagnet FePS 3 down to the monolayer. The experiments reveal a giant out‐of‐plane magnetic anisotropy o

CuAl₂O₄ is a normal spinel oxide having quantum spin, S = 1/2 for Cu²⁺. It is a rather unique feature that the Cu²⁺ ions of CuAl₂O₄ sit at a tetrahedral position, not like the usual octahedral position for many oxides. At low temperatures, it exhibits all the thermodynamic evidence of a quantum spin glass. For example, the polycrystalline CuAl₂O₄ shows a cusp centered at ~2 K in the low-field dc magnetization

Magnetite (Fe₃O₄) is of fundamental importance for the Verwey transition near T_V = 125 K, below which a complex lattice distortion and electron orders occur. The Verwey transition is suppressed by chemical doping effects giving rise to well-documented first and second-order regimes, but the origin of the order change is unclear. Here, we show that slow oxidation of monodisperse Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles leads to an intriguing variation of the Verw

The widely-studied ferromagnetic van-der-Waals (vdW) metal Fe₃GeTe₂ has great promise for studies of quantum criticality in the 2D limit, but is limited by a relatively high Curie temperature in excess of 200 K. To help render the quantum critical point achievable in such a system within the reach of practically possible tuning methods, we have grown single crystals of a variant of (Fe,Co)₃GeTe₂ with useful physical properties for both this purpose and

In order to examine the effects of strong valence band spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in 5d transition metal oxides (TMOs), we have investigated the L(2) and L(3) edge white-line intensities of the x-ray absorption spectra of several 5d TMOs. The white-line intensities at both edges are found to decrease monotonously with increasing 5d electron occupancy, while their ratio showed anomalous behavior for late 5d TMOs (IrO(2), PtO(2), and Au(2)O(3)), deviating significantly from the theoretical value of