Insider Brief
A Nature Materials review outlines how atomically thin magnetic semiconductors can tightly couple light, electric charge and spin for potential quantum and optoelectronic applications.
The City College of New York-led researchers describe how excitons interact with magnetic order and magnons, enabling optical readout and possible control of magnetic states.
Potential applications include magneto-photonic memory, optical logic, tunable light emitters, polaritonic devices and microwave-to-optical quantum transducers.
Artistic rendering of excitons coupled to magnetic order and spin waves in a layered magnetic semiconductor. (CCNY)
