Molecular Spintronics
In January 2005 Google reported 150 hits on "molecular spintronics".
The notion derives from "molecular electronics" a field of condensed matter physics and materials science,
which explores and applies electronic and optical properties of objects, containing one or more molecules.
In molecular spintronics besides the electron charge the electron spin is addressed. This is difficult because electromagnetic
fields couple much stronger to charge than to spin, though spin control will allow the exploitation of the phase of the electron wave function.
A beautiful example of a molecule for molecular spintronics is the nitrogen containing endofullerene N@C60 with spin 3/2. In these molecules the spins are chemically isolated and act with atomic precision.
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