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Robust Single Molecule Magnet Monolayers on Graphene and Graphite with Magnetic Hysteresis up to 28 K
2021, Spree, Lukas, Liu, Fupin, Neu, Volker, Rosenkranz, Marco, Velkos, Georgios, Wang, Yaofeng, Schiemenz, Sandra, Dreiser, Jan, Gargiani, Pierluigi, Valvidares, Manuel, Chen, Chia-Hsiang, Büchner, Bernd, Avdoshenko, Stanislav M., Popov, Alexey A.
The chemical functionalization of fullerene single molecule magnet Tb2@C80(CH2Ph) enables the facile preparation of robust monolayers on graphene and highly oriented pyrolytic graphite from solution without impairing their magnetic properties. Monolayers of endohedral fullerene functionalized with pyrene exhibit magnetic bistability up to a temperature of 28 K. The use of pyrene terminated linker molecules opens the way to devise integration of spin carrying units encapsulated by fullerene cages on graphitic substrates, be it single-molecule magnets or qubit candidates. © 2021 The Authors. Advanced Functional Materials published by Wiley-VCH GmbH
Substrate-Independent Magnetic Bistability in Monolayers of the Single-Molecule Magnet Dy2ScN@C80 on Metals and Insulators
2020, Krylov, Denis S., Schimmel, Sebastian, Dubrovin, Vasilii, Liu, Fupin, Nguyen, T.T. Nhung, Spree, Lukas, Chen, Chia-Hsiang, Velkos, Georgios, Bulbucan, Claudiu, Westerström, Rasmus, Studniarek, Michał, Dreiser, Jan, Hess, Christian, Büchner, Bernd, Avdoshenko, Stanislav M., Popov, Alexey A.
Magnetic hysteresis is demonstrated for monolayers of the single-molecule magnet (SMM) Dy2ScN@C80 deposited on Au(111), Ag(100), and MgO|Ag(100) surfaces by vacuum sublimation. The topography and electronic structure of Dy2ScN@C80 adsorbed on Au(111) were studied by STM. X-ray magnetic CD studies show that the Dy2ScN@C80 monolayers exhibit similarly broad magnetic hysteresis independent on the substrate used, but the orientation of the Dy2ScN cluster depends strongly on the surface. DFT calculations show that the extent of the electronic interaction of the fullerene molecules with the surface is increasing dramatically from MgO to Au(111) and Ag(100). However, the charge redistribution at the fullerene-surface interface is fully absorbed by the carbon cage, leaving the state of the endohedral cluster intact. This Faraday cage effect of the fullerene preserves the magnetic bistability of fullerene-SMMs on conducting substrates and facilitates their application in molecular spintronics. © 2019 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
Exceptionally High Blocking Temperature of 17 K in a Surface-Supported Molecular Magnet
2021, Paschke, Fabian, Birk, Tobias, Enenkel, Vivien, Liu, Fupin, Romankov, Vladyslav, Dreiser, Jan, Popov, Alexey A., Fonin, Mikhail
Single-molecule magnets (SMMs) are among the most promising building blocks for future magnetic data storage or quantum computing applications, owing to magnetic bistability and long magnetic relaxation times. The practical device integration requires realization of 2D surface assemblies of SMMs, where each magnetic unit shows magnetic relaxation being sufficiently slow at application-relevant temperatures. Using X-ray absorption spectroscopy and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, it is shown that sub-monolayers of Dy2 @C80 (CH2 Ph) dimetallofullerenes prepared on graphene by electrospray deposition exhibit magnetic behavior fully comparable to that of the bulk. Magnetic hysteresis and relaxation time measurements show that the magnetic moment remains stable for 100 s at 17 K, marking the blocking temperature TB(100) , being not only in excellent agreement with that of the bulk sample but also representing by far the highest one detected for a surface-supported single-molecule magnet. The reported findings give a boost to the efforts to stabilize and address the spin degree of freedom in molecular magnets aiming at the realization of SMM-based spintronic units.