2015
DOI: 10.1039/c5qi00059a
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Nanoscopic molecular magnets

Abstract: Nanoscopic molecular magnets have attracted tremendous interest in recent years both from an experimental and a theoretical point of view because of their potential application in magnetic data storage devices, quantum computing and molecular spintronics. These molecules have crucial advantages over magnetic nanoparticles in terms of their perfectly mono-dispersed phase, chemical flexibility and high purity. This review discusses a few basic concepts that are needed to understand the magnetic properties observ… Show more

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“…The importance of SMMs is that, even in the absence of an external magnetic field, they can preserve the magnetization for long period of time at low temperatures. After an extensive research on 3d metal complexes in the last decade [2][3][4], a rapid development of Ln based SMMs has been observed in recent years [5][6][7][8][9]. Compared to 3d metals, Ln based SMMs are mostly investigated owing to the fact that the Ln III ions such as Dy III , Tb III , Er III , and Ho III have huge and unquenched orbital angular momentum [10][11][12] which causes substantial magnetic anisotropy.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The importance of SMMs is that, even in the absence of an external magnetic field, they can preserve the magnetization for long period of time at low temperatures. After an extensive research on 3d metal complexes in the last decade [2][3][4], a rapid development of Ln based SMMs has been observed in recent years [5][6][7][8][9]. Compared to 3d metals, Ln based SMMs are mostly investigated owing to the fact that the Ln III ions such as Dy III , Tb III , Er III , and Ho III have huge and unquenched orbital angular momentum [10][11][12] which causes substantial magnetic anisotropy.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Single molecule magnets (SMMs) have attracted great attention due to their potential applications in the field of quantum computing, molecular spintronics, magneto-optics and high density data storage [1][2][3][4]. These low dimensional magnets, such as single ion magnet (SIM), single molecule magnet (SMM) [5,6] and single chain magnet (SCM) [7][8][9] show slow magnetic relaxation due to the presence of an energy barrier between different m J states.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The magnetic properties of matter are at the heart of several devices of routine use in our life, like, for instance, electric motors, magnetic tapes, diagnostic devices, computer memories and data storages. Pushed by the need of device miniaturization, there has been recently a strong impulse to the research in the field, following the idea of exploiting molecules or molecular aggregates, rather than bulk materials [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. The discovery of the giant magneto-resistive effect by Peter Grunberg and Albert Fert is paving the route toward the construction of a new generation of hard disks and spintronic devices (see for instance References [ [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]], just to cite few recent examples), and this has, in turn, stimulated new experimental and theoretical investigations of magnetic molecular species.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%