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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 3, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1940
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) within the Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN)
- Baden Wurttemberg Stiftung
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-06-NANO-033-01, ANR-09-JCJC-0137]
- Frontiers of Research in Chemistry
- Franco-German University
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23681018] Funding Source: KAKEN
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-09-JCJC-0137] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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A nanoscale molecular switch can be used to store information in a single molecule. Although the switching process can be detected electrically in the form of a change in the molecule's conductance, adding spin functionality to molecular switches is a key concept for realizing molecular spintronic devices. Here we show that iron-based spin-crossover molecules can be individually and reproducibly switched between a combined high-spin, high-conduction state and a low-spin, low-conduction state, provided the individual molecule is decoupled from a metallic substrate by a thin insulating layer. These results represent a step to achieving combined spin and conduction switching functionality on the level of individual molecules.
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