The $120,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant, funded through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research at the University of Maryland, College Park to engineer atomically thin magnetic materials for solid-state cryogenic cooling below 1 Kelvin. Over the one-year period from January 2023 to December 2023, the university researchers will apply first-principles simulations to understand magnetism-structure relationships in two-dimensional magnets. They will also employ experimental synthesis and processing techniques to engineer two-dimensional magnets. Magnetoelectric and magneto-optical characterization methods will be used to quantify resulting magnetic properties. The research aims to elucidate fundamental relationships between local atomic structures, crystalline structures, and magnetic properties of emerging two-dimensional magnets. Insights gained could guide the design and optimization of low-dimensional magnetic structures for clean cooling technologies.
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