Spin coupling and relaxation inside moleculeĝ€"metal contacts

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Mugarza, Aitor ^a   Krull, Cornelius ^a   Robles, Roberto ^a   Stepanow, Sebastian ^a   Ceballos, Gustavo ^a   Gambardella, Pietro ^a,b  

^a CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; MOLECULAR SIZE; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 80054725488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1497     Document Type: Article

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