{"id":1037,"date":"2025-12-23T14:57:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graphene.nus.edu.sg\/barbaros\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=1037"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:13:53","slug":"electric-field-tunable-ferromagnetism-in-a-van-der-waals-semiconductor-up-to-room-temperature","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/graphene.nus.edu.sg\/barbaros\/publication\/electric-field-tunable-ferromagnetism-in-a-van-der-waals-semiconductor-up-to-room-temperature\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Field-tunable Ferromagnetism in a van der Waals Semiconductor Up to Room Temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Our paper\u2014\u201cElectric field\u2011tunable ferromagnetism in a van der Waals semiconductor up to room temperature\u201d\u2014is now published in Nature Communications! This project took a long and winding path, and after more than five years and plenty of rethinking.<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span>The 2D community is chasing perfection\u2014cleaner crystals, sharper alignment, fewer defects. This work leans into the opposite idea: disorder.<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span>In 2D, disorder can be surprisingly forgiving, e.g.,\u00a0carrier\u2011mediated (RKKY\u2011type) interactions are more long\u2011ranged and decay slowly, so doping can be minimized and doesn\u2019t necessarily ruin the host. In black phosphorus, it allows cobalt to sit between the layers without destroying its semiconducting properties.\u00a0Those moments interact, the gate tunes the interaction, and the result is induced ferromagnetism that is electrically tunable up to room temperature.\u00a0Sometimes the trick isn\u2019t making materials more perfect\u2014it\u2019s knowing how to use their imperfections.<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" src=\"https:\/\/graphene.nus.edu.sg\/barbaros\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Ferromagnetism-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graphene.nus.edu.sg\/barbaros\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Ferromagnetism-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/graphene.nus.edu.sg\/barbaros\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Ferromagnetism-1024x696.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/graphene.nus.edu.sg\/barbaros\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Ferromagnetism-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/graphene.nus.edu.sg\/barbaros\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Ferromagnetism-1536x1044.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/graphene.nus.edu.sg\/barbaros\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Ferromagnetism.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For more information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-59961-2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","publication_taxonomy":[5],"class_list":["post-1037","publication","type-publication","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication_taxonomy-research"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Electric Field-tunable Ferromagnetism in a van der Waals Semiconductor Up to Room Temperature - Barbaros Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graphene.nus.edu.sg\/barbaros\/publication\/electric-field-tunable-ferromagnetism-in-a-van-der-waals-semiconductor-up-to-room-temperature\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Electric Field-tunable Ferromagnetism in a van der Waals Semiconductor Up to Room Temperature - Barbaros Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our paper\u2014\u201cElectric field\u2011tunable ferromagnetism in a van der Waals semiconductor up to room temperature\u201d\u2014is now published in Nature Communications! 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