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Interface-assisted spintronics: Tailoring at the molecular scale

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Organic molecules adsorbed on magnetic surfaces offer the possibility to merge the concepts of molecular electronics with spintronics to build future nanoscale data storage, sensing, and computing multifunctional devices. In order to engineer the functionalities of such hybrid spintronic devices, an understanding of the electronic and magnetic properties of the interface between carbon-based aromatic materials and magnetic surfaces is essential. In this article, we discuss recent progress in the study of spin-dependent chemistry and physics associated with the above molecule-ferromagnet interface by combining state-of-the-art experiments and theoretical calculations. The magnetic properties such as molecular magnetic moment, electronic interface spin-polarization, magnetic anisotropy, and magnetic exchange coupling can be specifi cally tuned by an appropriate choice of the organic material and the magnetic substrate. These reports suggest a gradual shift in research toward an emerging subfi eld of interface-assisted molecular spintronics.

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Acknowledgments

N.A. thanks the computational support under the auspices of the VSR on the supercomputer JUROPA and the GCS on the high-performance computer JUQUEEN operated by the JSC at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. K.V.R. acknowledges the financial support from the Science and Education Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), India (sanction no. SR/S2/RJN-66/2012).

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    Nicolae Atodiresei

  2. Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India

    Karthik V. Raman

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Atodiresei, N., Raman, K.V. Interface-assisted spintronics: Tailoring at the molecular scale. MRS Bulletin 39, 596–601 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2014.130

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