“…Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnetic materials are increasingly recognized for their potential application in next-generation spintronic devices. − These materials in atomically thin forms give rise to a controlling magnetic order and physical properties by gate bias, strain, and proximity effects. − To explore novel materials and the physics of magnetism at the 2D limit, both intrinsic magnetic and magnetically doped 2D vdW materials have been synthesized and investigated. ,− Whereas the latter class requires sophisticated efforts in designing and investigation, the exploration of intrinsic 2D vdW magnetic materials relies on the available bulk forms like ferromagnetic insulating CrBr 3 and CrI 3 , semiconducting CrGeTe 3 , metallic Fe 3 GeTe 2 , and antiferromagnetic insulating MPX 3 (M = Fe, Mn, and Ni, X = S and Se) systems. ,− In most of these materials, the long-range magnetic order is retained in atomically thin forms, and in some cases like CrI 3 , the inter-layer magnetic interactions can be tuned from FM to AFM by mediating the layer number . Furthermore, the antiferromagnetic order in MPX 3 can assist in the formation of coherent excitons, , indicating an appropriate family of materials to investigate the Bose–Einstein condensation of excitons .…”