{"id":213590,"date":"2025-05-08T21:04:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T02:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/turning-non-magnetic-materials-magnetic-with-atomically-thin-films"},"modified":"2025-05-08T21:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T02:04:47","slug":"turning-non-magnetic-materials-magnetic-with-atomically-thin-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/turning-non-magnetic-materials-magnetic-with-atomically-thin-films","title":{"rendered":"Turning Non-Magnetic Materials Magnetic with Atomically Thin Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/turning-non-magnetic-materials-magnetic-with-atomically-thin-films.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rules about magnetic order may need to be rewritten. Researchers have discovered that chromium selenide (Cr\u2082Se\u2083) \u2014 traditionally non-magnetic in bulk form \u2014 transforms into a magnetic material when reduced to atomically thin layers. This finding contradicts previous theoretical predictions, and opens new possibilities for spintronics applications. This could lead to faster, smaller, and more efficient electronic components for smartphones, data storage, and other essential technologies.<\/p>\n<p>An international research team from Tohoku University, Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine (Synchrotron SOLEIL), the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, and National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology successfully grew two-dimensional Cr\u2082Se\u2083 thin films on graphene using molecular beam epitaxy. By systematically reducing the thickness from three layers to one layer and analyzing them with high-brightness synchrotron X-rays, the team made a surprising discovery. This finding challenges conventional theoretical predictions that two-dimensional materials cannot maintain magnetic order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we first observed the ferromagnetic behavior in these ultra-thin films, we were genuinely shocked,\u201d explains Professor Takafumi Sato (WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University), the lead researcher. \u201cConventional theory told us this shouldn\u2019t happen. What\u2019s even more fascinating is that the thinner we made the films, the stronger the magnetic properties became\u2014completely contrary to what we expected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rules about magnetic order may need to be rewritten. Researchers have discovered that chromium selenide (Cr\u2082Se\u2083) \u2014 traditionally non-magnetic in bulk form \u2014 transforms into a magnetic material when reduced to atomically thin layers. This finding contradicts previous theoretical predictions, and opens new possibilities for spintronics applications. This could lead to faster, smaller, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}