Scientists make a 2D semiconductor magnetic with voltage control

Researchers from the National University of Singapore, with partners in Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Germany, introduced magnetism into a nonmagnetic 2D semiconductor and tuned it with an electrical voltage. The results, published in Science Advances, offer a platform for electrically controllable magnetism in atomically thin materials for spintronics.

• Magnetism was induced in an atomically thin 2D semiconductor
• Magnetic properties are tuned by an electrical voltage
• Findings published in the journal Science Advances
• Platform targets future spintronic technologies