Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 12, Issue 9, Pages 4558-4563Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl301802e
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Spin-polarized STM; fullerene; molecular orbital; density functional theory
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- Conseil Regional Ile-de-France
- Institut Universitaire de France
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Using organic materials in spintronic devices raises a lot of expectation for future applications due to their flexibility, low cost, long spin lifetime, and easy functionalization. However, the interfacial hybridization and spin polarization between the organic layer and the ferromagnetic electrodes still has to be understood at the molecular scale. Coupling state-of-the-art spin-polarized scanning tunneling spectroscopy and spin-resolved ab initio calculations, we give the first experimental evidence of the spin splitting of a molecular orbital on a single non magnetic C-60 molecule in contact with a magnetic material, namely, the Cr(001) surface. This hybridized molecular state is responsible for an inversion of sign of the tunneling magnetoresistance depending on energy. This result opens the way to spin filtering through molecular orbitals.
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