Tunnelling spectra of individual magnetic endofullerene molecules

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 884-889

  Grose, Jacob E ^a   Tam, Eugenia S ^a   Timm, Carsten ^b   Scheloske, Michael ^c   Ulgut, Burak ^d   Parks, Joshua J ^a   Abruña, Héctor D ^d   Harneit, Wolfgang ^c   Ralph, Daniel C ^a  

^a Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC STORAGE; MAGNETISM; MOLECULES;

ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; ENDO-FULLERENES; MAGNETIC MOLECULES; NON EQUILIBRIUM; QUANTUM STATE; SPIN EXCITATION; SPIN QUANTUM NUMBER; SPIN STATE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 54949157425     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2300     Document Type: Article

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