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State of the Art in Organic and Molecular Spintronics

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Organic spintronics field was born in 2002 with the pioneer work presented by the group of C. Taliani and A. V. Dediu. While molecules are easily tailored by chemical synthesis compared to inorganic materials, organics were initially seen as the ultimate media for spintronics devices due to their expected very long spin lifetime. Only very recently it was also unveiled that radically new spintronics functionalities, unavailable with conventional inorganic materials, could stem from the interface between ferromagnetic (FM) and molecular materials, giving rise to the so-called “spinterface” field. This chapter will present a general state of the art in organic and molecular spintronics fields and will conclude with the description of interface spin polarization manipulation effects studied by spinterface field.

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Galbiati, M. (2016). State of the Art in Organic and Molecular Spintronics. In: Molecular Spintronics. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22611-8_3

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