Spin Shuttles

The project "Spin shuttles" investigates molecules with unpaired electron spins in view of their performance in
molecular spintronics.
Spin shuttle is a term coined for endofullerene molecules that encage and protect an atom or molecule with an open electron shell.
Such molecules are candidates for single molecule magnets and have a great potential as building blocks in molecular spintronics.
A single molecule magnet is a single molecule that retains its magnetization direction for a long period of time, i.e. displays hysteresis.
The first single molecule magnet spin shuttle was Dy2ScN@C80.
Our experiments cover magnetic characterization of the electronic ground state with magnetometry and x-ray circular dichroism (XMCD).
The structure of the molecules on surfaces is investigated by x-ray photoelectron diffraction (XPD),
also with resonant excitation (RXPD) and tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS).
In collaboration with Dr. Matthias Muntwiler and Dr. Cinthia Piamontheze, PSI Villigen and Dr. Alexey Popov, IFW Dresden.
Team
- Prof. Thomas Greber
- Kamil Dwinger
- Wei Chuang Lee
- Lebin Yu
- Kaya Vogler
Latest publications
- Inferring the Dy-N axis orientation in adsorbed DySc2N@C80 endofullerenes by linearly polarized x-ray absorption spectroscopy
Phys. Rev. Materials, 7 086001 (2023)
→ DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.086001 - X-ray absorption measurements at a bending magnet beamline with an Everhart-Thornley detector: A monolayer of Ho3N@C80 on graphene
J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 40, 053205 (2022)
→ DOI: 10.1116/6.0001961 - Metamagnetic transition and a loss of magnetic hysteresis caused by electron trapping in monolayers of single-molecule magnet Tb2@C79N
Nanoscale, 14, 9877 (2022)
→ DOI: 10.1039/d1nr08475e - Synthesis of a magnetic π-extended carbon nanosolenoid with Riemann surfaces
Nature Comm. 13, 1239 (2022)
→ DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28870-z - Precise measurement of angles between two magnetic moments and their configurational stability in single-molecule magnets
Phys. Rev. B 104, 224401 (2021)
→ DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.224401 - ...[→ more publications]