Room-Temperature On-Spin-Switching and Tuning in a Porphyrin-Based Multifunctional Interface.

ABSTRACT: Molecular interfaces formed between metals and molecular compounds offer a great potential as building blocks for future opto-electronics and spintronics devices. Here, a combined theoretical and experimental spectro-microscopy approach is used to show that the charge transfer occurring at the interface between nickel tetraphenyl porphyrins and copper changes both spin and oxidation states of the Ni ion from [Ni(II), S = 0] to [Ni(I), S = 1/2]. The chemically active Ni(I), even in a buried multilayer system, can be functionalized with nitrogen dioxide, allowing a selective tuning of the electronic properties of the Ni center that is switched to a [Ni(II), S = 1] state. While Ni acts as a reversible spin switch, it is found that the electronic structure of the macrocycle backbone, where the

SUBMITTER: Sturmeit HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11475682 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature