MOST · Molecular spintronics
FP6 — Marie Curie Actions (Human Resources and Mobility)
- Duration
- 2006-12-01 → 2008-11-30
- EU contribution
- €149,103
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- EIF
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Results in brief
Final Activity Report Summary - MoST (Molecular Spintronics)
A revolution in electronics is in view with the contemporary evolution of the two novel disciplines of spintronics and molecular electronics. A fundamental link between these two fields can be established using molecular magnetic materials and, in particular, single molecule magnets. This project addressed the resulting field, molecular spintronics, which allowed for the manipulation of spin and charges in electronic devices containing one or more molecules. It was developed at the highest possible sensitivity level, so as to observe the physics of single molecule magnets using single molecule measurements. We made substantial progress in the development of suited magnetic materials, the fabrication of electronic nanodevices capable of detecting a single magnetic molecule, the assessment of the advantages of this strategy over more conventional materials and the definition of potential applications in information storage and processing. We created single carbon nanotube nanojunctions and grafting methods to attach a very controlled number of single molecule magnets onto it were also developed. We finally demonstrated that the devices were capable of sensing a single magnetic molecule.
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Project objective
Molecular Electronics and Molecular Magnetism are two rapidly emerging fields of Nanoscience, with a strong potential impact for the realization of new functions and devices helpful for information storage as well as quantum information.This project aims at the merging of the two fields by the realization of molecular junctions that involves magnetic molecules, thus opening the way to molecular spintronic devices. In order to tackle the challenge of controlled connection at the single molecule level, we will design a process of molecular self-assembly on nano-junctions obtained in which bottom-up and top-down approaches will be merged.This will involve a direct and close collaboration between chemists and physicists and the creation of strongly multidisciplinary competences. Functionalised molecule having a well-characterized magnetic behaviour will be used, such as molecular magnets based on transition metals or lanthanides. It has been theoretically predicted that the magneto-resistance of a molecular junction based on a molecular magnet could lead to a direct measurement of spin tunnelling at the single spin level.The experimental confirmation of such a prediction would open the way to a control of single spin states and establishes the new field molecular spintronics. Such an achievement would have enormous scientific and technological consequences.
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Participants
- CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE · PARISCoordinatorFrance
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