Title:	Molecular Spintronics
Authors:	Galbiati, Marta
Keywords:	Molecular
Issue Date:	2015
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing Switzerland
Description:	Organic spintronics is an emerging research field at the frontier between organic chemistry and spintronics. Exploiting the peculiarity of these two fields, this young branch of spintronics presents a great potential combining the flexibility, versatility, and low production cost of organic materials with the nonvolatility, spin degree of freedom and beyond CMOS capabilities offered by spintronics. While the interest in organic materials was mainly initiated by the expected longer spin lifetime of spin polarized carriers, it has been recently unveiled that new spintronics tailoring opportunities, unachievable or unthinkable of with inorganic materials, could arise from the chemical versatility brought by molecules and molecular engineering. It was shown that the molecular structure, the local geometry at the molecule–electrode interface, and more importantly the ferromagnetic metal/molecule hybridization can strongly influence the interfacial spin properties. This makes organic systems highly promising for the envisaged possibility to engineer at molecular level the spintronic properties of these devices. The increasing attention towards these exciting effects has, during my Ph.D., resulted in the development of a new field called “spinterface,” whose aim is to investigate the metal–molecule interface properties for spin polarization manipulation. The work of this thesis follows from the fascinating opportunities predicted and offered by spin hybridization and giving birth to the spinterface field.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/74390
ISBN:	978-3-319-22611-8
Appears in Collections:	Chemistry

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