
Graphene is a marvelous material with remarkable properties resulting from the single layer of carbon atoms. However, a major disadvantage is that the light carbon atoms have very small spin-orbit interaction. A recent letter in Nature Materials, 15, 711 (2016) describes a multilayer device in which a very thin magnetic layer turns the nonmagnetic graphene into a strongly magnetic electronic material. This magnetic exchange effect could be an essential ingredient for magnetic memories and spintronic applications. In the figure, the right axis shows the total Zeeman field (BZ) enhanced by the EuS-induced interfacial exchange field. The magnetic field felt by the electrons in graphene is enormous (18 T), as the EuS effectively multiplies the applied field nearly five times.