Electron spin resonance of single iron phthalocyanine molecules and role of their non-localized spins in magnetic interactions.


Journal

Nature chemistry
ISSN: 1755-4349
Titre abrégé: Nat Chem
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101499734

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
01 2022
Historique:
received: 22 12 2020
accepted: 27 09 2021
pubmed: 13 11 2021
medline: 13 11 2021
entrez: 12 11 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy is a crucial tool, through spin labelling, in investigations of the chemical structure of materials and of the electronic structure of materials associated with unpaired spins. ESR spectra measured in molecular systems, however, are established on large ensembles of spins and usually require a complicated structural analysis. Recently, the combination of scanning tunnelling microscopy with ESR has proved to be a powerful tool to image and coherently control individual atomic spins on surfaces. Here we extend this technique to single coordination complexes-iron phthalocyanines (FePc)-and investigate the magnetic interactions between their molecular spin with either another molecular spin (in FePc-FePc dimers) or an atomic spin (in FePc-Ti pairs). We show that the molecular spin density of FePc is both localized at the central Fe atom and also distributed to the ligands (Pc), which yields a strongly molecular-geometry-dependent exchange coupling.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34764471
doi: 10.1038/s41557-021-00827-7
pii: 10.1038/s41557-021-00827-7
doi:

Banques de données

figshare
['10.6084/m9.figshare.16574534.v1']

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

59-65

Informations de copyright

© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Xue Zhang (X)

Center for Quantum Nanoscience, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Christoph Wolf (C)

Center for Quantum Nanoscience, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Yu Wang (Y)

Center for Quantum Nanoscience, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Hervé Aubin (H)

Universités Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, Palaiseau, France.

Tobias Bilgeri (T)

Institute of Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Philip Willke (P)

Center for Quantum Nanoscience, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Physikalisches Institut, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Andreas J Heinrich (AJ)

Center for Quantum Nanoscience, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul, Republic of Korea. heinrich.andreas@qns.science.
Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. heinrich.andreas@qns.science.

Taeyoung Choi (T)

Center for Quantum Nanoscience, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul, Republic of Korea. choi.taeyoung@qns.science.
Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. choi.taeyoung@qns.science.

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