Potential for spin-based information processing in a thin-film molecular semiconductor

Nature

Volumn 503, Issue 7477, 2013, Pages 504-508

  Warner, Marc ^a,d   Din, Salahud ^b   Tupitsyn, Igor S ^c   Morley, Gavin W ^a,e   Stoneham, A Marshall ^a   Gardener, Jules A ^a,f   Wu, Zhenlin ^b   Fisher, Andrew J ^a   Heutz, Sandrine ^b   Kay, Christopher W M ^a   Aeppli, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^f RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; LIQUID NITROGEN; PHTHALOCYANINE;

FILM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUBSTRATE;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; FILM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRIGERATOR; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84888644242     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12597     Document Type: Article

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