Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Spin doping using transition metal phthalocyanine molecules

  • A. Atxabal,
  • M. Ribeiro,
  • S. Parui,
  • L. Urreta,
  • E. Sagasta,
  • X. Sun,
  • R. Llopis,
  • F. Casanova,
  • L. E. Hueso

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13751
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Molecular magnets are molecules with an inherent non-zero spin that can exhibit magnetic ordering. Here, the authors show that such molecules can change the many-body ground state of nonmagnetic metals at a functional scale with magnetic phthalocyanines.