Ultrathin van der Waals materials and their heterostructures offer a simple, yet powerful platform for discovering emergent phenomena and implementing device structures in the two-dimensional limit. The past few years has pushed this frontier to include magnetism. These advances have brought forth a new assortment of layered materials that intrinsically possess a wide variety of magnetic properties and are instrumental in integrating exchange and spin–orbit interactions into van der Waals heterostructures. This Review Article summarizes recent progress in exploring the intrinsic magnetism of atomically thin van der Waals materials, manipulation of their magnetism by tuning the interlayer coupling, and device structures for spin- and valleytronic applications.

超薄范德华材料及其异质结构提供了一个简单而强大的平台，用于发现新兴现象并在二维范围内实现器件结构。在过去的几年中，这一领域已将磁性包括在内。这些进步带来了新的层状材料分类，这些层状材料固有地具有多种磁性，并且在将交换和自旋轨道相互作用整合到范德华异质结构中发挥了作用。这篇综述文章总结了探索原子薄范德华材料的固有磁性，通过调节层间耦合来操纵其磁性以及用于自旋和波谷电子应用的器件结构方面的最新进展。