Collective All-Carbon Magnetism in Triangulene Dimers

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Beitragende

  • Shantanu Mishra - , Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) (Autor:in)
  • Doreen Beyer - , Professur für Molekulare Funktionsmaterialien (cfaed) (Autor:in)
  • Kristjan Eimre - , Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) (Autor:in)
  • Ricardo Ortiz - , University of Alicante (Autor:in)
  • Joaquín Fernández-Rossier - , International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (Autor:in)
  • Reinhard Berger - , Professur für Molekulare Funktionsmaterialien (cfaed) (Autor:in)
  • Oliver Gröning - , Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) (Autor:in)
  • Carlo A. Pignedoli - , Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) (Autor:in)
  • Roman Fasel - , Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Universität Bern (Autor:in)
  • Xinliang Feng - , Professur für Molekulare Funktionsmaterialien (cfaed) (Autor:in)
  • Pascal Ruffieux - , Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) (Autor:in)

Abstract

Triangular zigzag nanographenes, such as triangulene and its π-extended homologues, have received widespread attention as organic nanomagnets for molecular spintronics, and may serve as building blocks for high-spin networks with long-range magnetic order, which are of immense fundamental and technological relevance. As a first step towards these lines, we present the on-surface synthesis and a proof-of-principle experimental study of magnetism in covalently bonded triangulene dimers. On-surface reactions of rationally designed precursor molecules on Au(111) lead to the selective formation of triangulene dimers in which the triangulene units are either directly connected through their minority sublattice atoms, or are separated via a 1,4-phenylene spacer. The chemical structures of the dimers have been characterized by bond-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy. Scanning tunneling spectroscopy and inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy measurements reveal collective singlet–triplet spin excitations in the dimers, demonstrating efficient intertriangulene magnetic coupling.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)12041-12047
Seitenumfang7
FachzeitschriftAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Jahrgang59
Ausgabenummer29
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 13 Juli 2020
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

PubMed 32301570

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Schlagwörter

  • magnetism, nanographenes, on-surface synthesis, scanning probe microscopy, surface chemistry