The growing family of two-dimensional (2D) materials 1-3 can be used to assemble van der Waals heterostructures with a wide range of properties 4-6 . Of particular interest are tunnelling heterostructures 7-9 , which have been used to study the electronic states both in the tunnelling barrier and in the emitter and collector contacts 10,11 . Recently, 2D ferromagnets have been studied theoretically 12-15 and experimentally 16-18 . Here we investigate electron tunnelling through a thin (2-6 layers) ferromagnetic CrBr 3 barrier. For devices with non-magnetic barriers, conservation of momentum can be relaxed by phonon-assisted tunnelling 8,19-21 or by tunnelling through localised states 8,21,22 . In the case of our ferromagnetic barrier the dominant tunnelling mechanisms are the emission of magnons 18 at low temperatures or scattering of electrons on localised magnetic excitations above the Curie temperature. Magnetoresistance in the graphene electrodes further suggests induced spin-orbit coupling and proximity exchange via the ferromagnetic barrier. Tunnelling with magnon emission offers the possibility of spin-injection, as has been previously demonstrated with other ferromagnetic barriers 23,24 . S1. Device fabrication S2. Temperature dependence of differential dI/dV b conductance on magnetic field for devices with different thickness of CrBr 3
S3. Quantum capacitance of Gr/CrBr 3 /Gr devices
S4. Calculation of magnon density of states
S5. Scattering rates
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