Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) semiconductors have attracted significant attention because of their rich electronic/photonic properties and importance for fundamental research and novel device applications. These materials provide a unique opportunity to build up high quality and atomically sharp heterostructures because of the nature of weak van der Waals interlayer interactions. The v...

3 Aspects of magnetism in oxides 9 3.1 SrMnO3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.2 Crystal fields, moment formation and ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.3 SrMnO3 revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.4 SrTcO3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3.5...

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