Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Tunable giant magnetoresistance in a single-molecule junction

  • Kai Yang,
  • Hui Chen,
  • Thomas Pope,
  • Yibin Hu,
  • Liwei Liu,
  • Dongfei Wang,
  • Lei Tao,
  • Wende Xiao,
  • Xiangmin Fei,
  • Yu-Yang Zhang,
  • Hong-Gang Luo,
  • Shixuan Du,
  • Tao Xiang,
  • Werner A. Hofer,
  • Hong-Jun Gao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11587-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Molecular electronics or spintronics relies on manipulating the electronic transport through microscopic molecule structures. Here the authors demonstrate the selective electron pathway in single-molecule device by magnetic field which enables a tunable anisotropic magnetoresistance up to 93%.