The electronic and magnetic properties of two-dimensional materials both have strong potential for technological applications. Researchers have long assumed that they are distinct phenomena, but Illinois Grainger engineers have demonstrated that they share a mathematical language.
In an article recently published in Physical Review X, a team in The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign showed how to engineer two-dimensional magnetic systems to obey the same equations as mobile electrons in the two-dimensional material graphene. The mathematical mapping not only has implications for radiofrequency technology, but it also opens the door to a new method for studying and engineering these kinds of systems.
"It's not at all obvious that there is an analogy between 2D electronics and 2D magnetic behaviors, and we're still amazed at how well this analogy works," said Bobby Kaman, the study's lead author. "2D electronics are very well studied thanks to the discovery of graphene, and now we've shown that a not-so-well-studied class of materials obeys the same fundamental physics."
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