Advances in Magnetic Semiconductor Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Magnetic semiconductor materials have emerged as a pivotal platform for integrating the charge, spin, and lattice degrees of freedom, enabling transformative advances in next-generation electronics and quantum technologies. The material landscape has expanded dramatically to include dilute magnetic III–V and II–VI alloys, oxide semiconductors, transition metal chalcogenides, van der Waals magnets, and half-metallic Heusler compounds, each offering distinct exchange mechanisms and tunable Curie temperature ranges. Recent breakthroughs in controlled synthesis techniques—including molecular beam epitaxy, pulsed laser deposition, chemical vapor transport, atomic-layer doping, and the exfoliation/assembly of 2D layers—have enabled the realization of atomically sharp interfaces, ultralow defect densities, and scalable heterostructures with tailored functionalities.

For this Special Issue, we welcome contributions that bridge fundamental material innovation and device performance improvements, focusing on topics such as spin-FETs, magnetic tunnel junctions, spin–orbit torque memories, neuromorphic skyrmion-based synapses, and qubit architectures leveraging long-lived spin coherence in magnetic semiconductors. Both original research papers and focused reviews addressing these themes are encouraged. Of particular interest are studies demonstrating multi-field control of the magnetic order, spin textures, and topological states using electric gating, the strain, intercalation, optical excitation, or magnetic fields, highlighting the achievability of dynamic tuning across the picosecond to steady-state timescales.

Prof. Dr. Yilin Wang
Guest Editor

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• magnetic semiconductors
• van der Waals magnets
• spin–charge–lattice coupling
• controlled syn-thesis
• multi-field control
• spintronics devices