• 文献标题:   Electrically Addressing the Spin of a Magnetic Porphyrin through Covalently Connected Graphene Electrodes
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LI JC, FRIEDRICH N, MERINO N, DE OTEYZA DG, PENA D, JACOB D, PASCUAL JI
  • 作者关键词:   scanning tunneling microscope, twoterminal transport measurement, spin excitation, magnetic porphyrin, graphene nanoribbon, twoorbital anderson impurity model
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   CIC nanoGUNE
  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b00883
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

We report on the fabrication and transport characterization of atomically precise single-molecule devices consisting of a magnetic porphyrin covalently wired by graphene nanoribbon electrodes. The tip of a scanning tunneling microscope was utilized to contact the end of a GNR-porphyrin-GNR hybrid system and create a molecular bridge between the tip and sample for transport measurements. Electrons tunneling through the suspended molecular heterostructure excited the spin multiplet of the magnetic porphyrin. The detachment of certain spin centers from the surface shifted their spin-carrying orbitals away from an on-surface mixed-valence configuration, recovering its original spin state. The existence of spin-polarized resonances in the free-standing systems and their electrical addressability is the fundamental step in the utilization of carbon-based materials as functional molecular spintronics systems.