Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

A semiconducting layered metal-organic framework magnet

  • Chongqing Yang,
  • Renhao Dong,
  • Mao Wang,
  • Petko St. Petkov,
  • Zhitao Zhang,
  • Mingchao Wang,
  • Peng Han,
  • Marco Ballabio,
  • Sascha A. Bräuninger,
  • Zhongquan Liao,
  • Jichao Zhang,
  • Friedrich Schwotzer,
  • Ehrenfried Zschech,
  • Hans-Henning Klauss,
  • Enrique Cánovas,
  • Stefan Kaskel,
  • Mischa Bonn,
  • Shengqiang Zhou,
  • Thomas Heine,
  • Xinliang Feng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11267-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Semiconductors that display spontaneous magnetization are attractive for spintronic applications. Here the authors report a p-type semiconducting layered metal–organic framework that displays a room temperature carrier mobility of 15 ± 2 cm2 V−1 s−1 as well as long-range magnetic correlations.