Since the discovery of monolayer graphene in 2004, the door for the new families of exfoliable materials has been opened and the number of 2-dimensional (2D) materials as well as the attention they draw has seen exponential growth. Materials that consist of 2D layers bonded by van der Waals forces are of particular interest due to the wide variety of complex electronic and spintronic phenomena that can be engineered in thin-film devices. Graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) are canonical examples. More recently, transition metal di-chalcogenides (TMDC) such as MoS 2 and WTe 2 have come under intense interest, because of their shallow band gaps, compared to the pure metallic behavior of graphene. These TMDCs may host topological behavior with the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling due to the existence 4d or 5d transition metal elements. Many 2-D transition metal chalcogenides have been discovered, including the ternary M PX 3 compounds, where M is transition metal and X is a chalcogenide ion. These materials are widely utilized for their magnetic properties due to the well-defined magnetic moment of 3d transition metal ions such as Mn 2+ and Fe .